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Inmate hangs self after sentence lifted| George Hatton Smithey, 70, was found hanging alone in his cell in the San Quentin State Prison. His sentence was commuted to ... | |
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Death Row Inmate Dies Of Natural Causes Robert Rubane Diaz, a former nurse sentenced to death for the killing of 12 patients at two hospitals in Riverside County in 1981, has died
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| Jul.27 |
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Fatal DUI Driver Murdered In Prison Edward John Schaefer, 44, sentenced for killing a 9-year-old girl and maiming her fathe died after he was stabbed by another inmate
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| Dec.31 |
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New Hospital Couldn't Treat 2 Inmates
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| Dec.26 |
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Receiver Muscles Through New Hospital
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| Nov.21 |
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Treasurer Delays Financing For S. Quentin
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| Jul.17 |
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Death Row Inmate Dies Of Natural Causes
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| Jul.2 |
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Swine Flu Quarantine At Prison About 800 State Prison inmates have been quarantined while officials investigate 30 suspected cases of swine flu
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| Jun.16 |
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Death Row Inmate Found Dead In Cell
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| May.26 |
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Brief Lockdown, But No Prison Escape
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| May.14 |
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Schwarzenegger Selling San Quentin California Gov. is expected to release his newly revised budget Thursday in which he will reportedly propose selling State Prison
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| Apr.20 |
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Inmates Locked Down After Riot |
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| Mar.31 |
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Lawmaker Proposes Selling State Prison Some lawmakers want to sell San Quentin to private developers who might pay $2 billion for the property and help replenish the state's coffe...
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| Jun.13 |
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Price Tag Soars For New Death Row
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| Apr.25 |
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Chaplain Jailed In Alleged Wife Attack Rafeeq Hassan is free on bail after being arrested for allegedly choking his wife with an electrical cord
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Device with data on visitors disappears
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| Sep.9 |
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Successful Drug Recovery Program
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| Apr.14 |
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Calif. Building New Death Chamber
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Rehab program to ease overcrowding
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| Jan.23 |
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Condemned inmate found dead
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| Aug.18 |
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Klaas Killer's Cell Searched for Karr Letters Prison officials have not turned up any material in the cell of Richard Allen Davis that connects him with Karr
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| May.4 |
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Sex Offenders Moving To San Quentin 12 parolees will temporarily live at prison because the Solano County hotels no longer want them there
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| Apr.23 |
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New prison health czar tours state prison Robert Sillen, California’s new corrections department inspector general, was appalled by the crowded conditions
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| Mar.30 |
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Federal judge toured State Prison
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| Feb.26 |
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Riot Prompts Lockdown
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| Feb.21 |
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Morales execution hold off 
The state has cancelled the execution of a killer over ethical issues surrounding the lethal injection method
| Prison failed twice within 24 hours to find anesthesiologists to administer the drugs to Michael Morales.
He was convicted of the murder and rape of a 17-year-old girl in 1981.
Morales is now back on Death Row while the state reviews the policy on how to carry out lethal injections.
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Delays Hamper Morales Execution
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| Feb.20 |
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Quiet As Morales Execution Looms
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| Feb.17 |
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Condemned killer has 2 appeals pending
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| Jan.25 |
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Inmate Slashes Guard, Prompts Lockdown |
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| Jan.19 |
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Escaped inmate apprehended |
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| Jan.18 |
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Morales Faces Feb. 21 Execution Stockton man raped and killed a 17-year-old girl whose body was found beaten and stabbed in 25 years ago
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| Jan.17 |
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State Executes Allen| California's oldest condemned inmate Clarence Ray Allen needed an extra dose of a lethal chemical | |
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| Jan.15 |
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Appeals court denies stay to Allen. San Francisco
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| Jan.13 |
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Riot Injures 9 Inmates, Staff The fight between black and Hispanic inmates started in a dining hall with about 260 inmates
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| Dec.27 |
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San Leandro 'Sausage King' Dies
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| Dec.13 |
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Nobel nominated gang leader executed 
Convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams executed at the state prison
| Stanley Tookie Williams spent more than 2 decades on death row for the 1979 robbery murders of four people in Los Angeles. Williams appeared to grow impatient as prison staffers searched for several minutes for a vein in his arm. His death was announced 34 min. later. Williams, 51, maintained he was innocent of the slayings.
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| Dec.12 |
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Condemned awaiting last-minute appeal
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| Dec.8 |
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Clemency Hearing Gives Williams Chance |
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| Dec.5 |
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Demonstrators Plead For Tookie's Life |
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| Nov.19 |
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Snoop Dogg Supports Crips Founder Rapper is urging Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to a gang founder who is scheduled to be executed next month
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| Oct.24 |
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Williams gets execution date
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| Oct.1 |
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Lockdown to search for contraband |
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| Aug.8 |
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Dozens Injured In Prison Riot Parts of San Quentin were on lockdown after a riot erupted just after breakfast among at least 70 prisoners
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Louis Farrakhan Meets With Inmates Black Muslim Leader visited state prison, meeting with death row inmate Stanley 'Tookie' Williams
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| May.21 |
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Opposition to Moving Death Row |
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| Apr.17 |
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Lawmaker Plans to Fight Prison Expansion |
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| Apr.14 |
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Report critical of health care |
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| Mar.29 |
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Escaped San Quentin prisoner arrested |
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| Mar.17 |
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Scott Peterson Moved To Death Row
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| Jan.19 |
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Beardslee executed| Donald Beardslee, 61, was convicted of killing two women in 1981. Gov. Schwarzenegger rejected clemency | |
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| Jan.5 |
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Inmate escaped from prison
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| Dec.29 |
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Death row inmate dies from cancer |
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| Nov.6 |
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New warden appointed |
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| May.10 |
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New acting warden |
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| Mar.29 |
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Oldest Death Row inmate dies |
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| Feb.9 |
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Execution delayed
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| Feb.8 |
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Prison, protesters ready for execution |
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| Feb.2 |
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Cooper challenges lethal injection |
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| Aug.11 |
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Polly Klaas Killer Attacked in Prison |
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| Jun.13 |
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Search turns up no guns |
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Metallica Plays at Prison
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Attorney arrested |
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| Dec.24 |
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Inmates Save Christmas |
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| Sep.11 |
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Crips founder cleared for execution |
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| Jul.11 |
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50-year-old prison employee found dead |
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| Jun.26 |
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Graduation ceremony at State Prison |
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| Apr.25 |
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San Quentin Giants wins 5-4 |
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| Mar.15 |
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Death row inmate stabbed |
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| Jan.29 |
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Stephen Anderson Executed Was sentenced to death for killing an 81-year-old
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| Jan.24 |
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Clemency petition denied |
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| Jan.14 |
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Facing execution wants clemency |
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| Sep.28 |
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Inmates contribute to relief efforts |
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| Jun.11 |
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Convicted in slayings released on bail |
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| Jun.5 |
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San Quentin escapee surrenders |
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| Mar.27 |
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Killer Executed Robert Massie executed after 20 years on death row
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| Mar.19 |
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Witnesses to view entire execution |
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| Feb.6 |
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Killer to be executed
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| Jan.26 |
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Race riot at San Quentin
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| Nov.18 |
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Prisoner Nominated for Nobel Prize Former gang founder in a death row.
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| Oct.3 |
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Prisoner escapes |
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| Sep.25 |
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Sex Offender Escaped |
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| Jul.29 |
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Security deteriorating |
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| Mar.15 |
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Darrell Keith Rich executed Rich sexually assaulted and killed several young women in 1978 and became known as the 'Hilltop Rapist'