“This change is good,” said San Quentin officer Andrei Kinshin, who for 10 years has guarded the door of the East Block of Death Row, the main building for the condemned men. (There are no ...

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Monday the agency has already begun the process of phasing out death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County.

Cooper, who called in from San Quentin State Prison, has been on death row for 34 years for brutal murders he has always insisted he did not commit, after a trial he says was infected by corruption ...

Instead of facing the gas chamber at San Quentin, the reputed Mexican Mafia member turned death row into a base of power, law enforcement authorities and gang defectors say, collecting extortion ...