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NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Jodi Hernandez, who toured the prison, for some insight. San Quentin’s infamous death row is facing its own death sentence. Last year, the governor...
Mar 13, 2019 · There are currently 737 inmates on the state's death row, the nation's largest. Among the condemned inmates, here are some of the Bay Area's notorious killers.
One day, in May of 1985, Kevin Cooper first set foot on death row at San Quentin State Prison, in the San Francisco Bay. Three weeks ago — 39 years later — he left one of the oldest, most...
Aug 17, 2016 · San Quentin also houses Scott Peterson, who gained notoriety for the 2002 slaying of his pregnant wife. Peterson is housed in a section of death row for well-behaved inmates, where a Mickey...
May 9, 2024 · City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino.
- Salvador Hernandez
- Staff Writer
- salvador.hernandez@latimes.com
The death row at San Quentin is divided into three sections: the quiet "North-Segregation" or "North-Seg," built in 1934, for prisoners who "don't cause trouble"; the "East Block," a "crumbling, leaky maze of a place built in 1927"; and the "Adjustment Center" for the "worst of the worst." [6] .
Jun 2, 2023 · When a California correctional officer took this photo for Michael Whisenhunt in 2001, the inmate still harbored visible wounds from a prison yard fight that had to be broken up with non-lethal force. Whisenhunt described San Quentin State Prison’s death row as a “madhouse.” (Photo courtesy of Michael Whisenhunt)
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