San Quentin State Prison News

A California death row inmate who came within hours of being executed at San Quentin State Prison in 2004 came a step closer to exhausting all possible appeals Monday.

A Long Beach Superior Court ordered death by lethal injection Tuesday for a Long Beach killer twice convicted for the slashing deaths of two local women.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 10:15 a.m. NOVATO, Calif. - State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has delayed plans for issuing bonds to pay for the expansion of death row at San Quentin State Prison.

Prison officials say a man convicted of a 1987 double murder has died of natural causes, 16 years after he was sent to death row at San Quentin State Prison.

The high court's unanimous ruling may be the final judicial verdict on the sentencing of Fernando Belmontes, 48, who has spent nearly all his adult life on San Quentin State Prison's Death Row.

But he's never experienced anything quite like the Muni ride of his life the other day.

James Jones is a tough guy - you have to be to put in 27 years as a guard at San Quentin State Prison.

A guard checks cells on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. The condemned live in single cells that are slightly larger than the two-bunk, maximum-security confines elsewhere, they have better access to telephones and they have 'contact visits' in plexiglass booths by themselves rather than in communal halls as in other ...

The so-called I-5 Strangler was sentenced Thursday to six consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to six Northern California killings in an effort to avoid the death penalty.

Divers for the all-volunteer DART team now have a sonar device that will help them rescue people in danger of drowning or aid in a safe recovery of a body.

Does San Quentin need a new Death Row? Calling it the 'Cadillac Death Row', Assemblymen Jared Huffman voiced his strong opposition at a recent public forum, to plans to build a new $400 million expansion of the Death Row facility on the western grounds of San Quentin State Prison.

Every day is the Day of the Dead and Halloween for Cathee Shultz and J.D. Healy.

I was honored to take my first look inside San Quentin State Prison on August 26th, 2009, while attending Project s Student Acknowledgement & Check Presentation Event.

Fresno, CA- Fresno Police officers say years of persistence have paid off as they believe, they have solved a 30-year-old murder case.

San Francisco police say the infamous serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" is a suspect in a 1984 San Francisco homicide of a nine-year old girl.

IT WAS a cold night and a long trip, and the only way Bob Wootton could get to Fayetteville, Arkansas, was by hitching a ride in the back of an old pick-up truck.

About these three documents: Three searing broadsides advertising an event to protest the execution by electric chair of Daniel Roberts, a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison.

Allison Hoover Bartlett, author of "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much," will read from her book Oct.

The man who died after being subdued by tasers Monday evening has been identified by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office as Christopher John Belknap, 36.

Authorities say a man who died Monday after being subdued by police with Taser stun guns had been released from San Quentin State Prison two days earlier.