San Quentin’s infamous death row is facing its own death sentence. The California Department of Corrections (CDCR) has now begun transferring death row inmates to other prisons across the state ...

San Quentin State Prison has always been home to those responsible for the most horrific suffering, but change in its infamous death row block is coming. Since 1893, when the first inmate was hung ...

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Behind the bleak concrete walls of California’s San Quentin state prison, a Death Row guard ... Chessman from the “green room,” as Death Row inmates call it. An auto caravan pulled into ...

A condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. in 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) It took decades for death row inmate Richard ...

San Quentin State Prison is one of North America's most notorious jails. It has held convicts like Charles Manson, and today it houses the largest death row population in the USA. It is here that ...

While he was supposed to die at the hands of the state ... rest of his life in prison — despite being only 37 years old when he was sentenced to San Quentin’s death row.

So many prisoners have been sentenced to death in California — and so few have actually been executed — that the ranks of condemned inmates ... row and the death chamber at San Quentin State ...