San Quentin News

Over 700 prisoners now sit on California's Death Rows -- men at San Quentin, women at Chowchilla.

This Sept. 21, 2010 file photo shows a witness gallery inside the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.

SAN QUENTIN State Prison has been perched on Marin's bayfront since 1852 and, if you ask me, it's likely going to be there for another 160 years.

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From inside the death chamber of the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Sept.

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For nearly 20 years, Scott F. Kauffman has been representing Dennis Lawley in an appeal of his 1989 first-degree murder conviction.

Ken Nelson, of Nelson's Lock & Key in Pacifica, got an unusual call Sunday, April 29.

Shane Bauer , Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal speak about their experiences from being imprisoned in Iran, during an Occupy the Prisons protest at San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, California, in this February 20, 2012 file photo.

The view a condemned inmate would have from a table inside the death chamber; photograph taken in 2010 during a tour of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.

"Boring," you might say, the column sticking up on a residental lot at Hobart and Franklin? That forelorn stick of what architectural historians call 'street furniture' will be put into the context of its creation, and the evolution of the neighborhood around it, when Donald Seligman leads tours of the area on two Saturdays, June 2nd and 9th.

Steve Kinsey, candidate for Marin County Board of Supervisors, District 4. Thursday, April 19, 2012.

An autopsy was performed on Levelt Duverne's body on Friday, two days after he was discovered hanging from a noose in his cell.