San Quentin’s execution chamber in 2003, after it had converted to allow inmates to choose between gas or lethal injection. David Edwin Mason was the last man executed with gas in 1993.

San Quentin’s execution chamber in 2003, ... That new death chamber featured a gurney in the middle of the room with four intravenous tubes routed through a wall to an “infusion control room. ...

San Quentin’s execution chamber in 2003, ... That new death chamber featured a gurney in the middle of the room with four intravenous tubes routed through a wall to an “infusion control room. ...

Journalism is history in Sam Stanton’s award-winning 1992 coverage of the execution of Robert Alton Harris in San Quentin’s gas chamber.

San Quentin’s execution chamber in 2003, after it had converted to allow inmates to choose between gas or lethal injection. David Edwin Mason was the last man executed with gas in 1993.

The state’s oldest prison, San Quentin opened in 1852. While inmates were executed at Folsom State Prison in the early days, San Quentin has been the only place male inmates have been executed since ...

The conditions of San Quentin - which staged its first execution in 1893 - have been described as shocking by inmates and their family. ... Thanks to San Quentin’s green room of death ...

A group of Catholic bishops will visit San Quentin Prison’s death row inmates on Tuesday as inmates await transfer to other facilities in light of California’s moratorium on executions.

Bee Staff Writer Sam Stanton won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for deadline writing in 1992 for his coverage of the execution of Robert Alton Harris at San ...

San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest Death Row and was built in 1852 ...

San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest Death Row and was built in 1852 ...