Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

incarcerating him for more than 26 years on San Quentin’s Death Row without the possibility of parole. Ketley, a former member of San Francisco Ballet and Lines Ballet who now teaches at ...

In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illness started to circulate.

San Quentin has California's only death chamber, with 656 inmates waiting to be executed. On death row, each prisoner is confined to a cell just large enough for a bed and toilet. Walking along ...

Kraft, now 80, was convicted in 1989 of brutalizing and killing 16 men over a decade in California and sentenced to death. He remains incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison and has denied ...

Lawmakers have approved $356 million to build a death row facility to replace the existing one at San Quentin, and some say that is another reason to consider selling the prison. "Does it make ...

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 ...

waiting to die on San Quentin's death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at her Kern County home in October 1994. The day before, he had broken into Breck's ...

In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illness started to circulate. In ...