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Chill Out, Scotty.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Justice: It's hard for us to get worked up over whether Scott Peterson gets the death penalty or just life in prison without parole. As anyone familiar with California's legal system knows, they're really one and the same.
Pop quiz: Of the 628 murderers condemned since the state brought back the death penalty in 1977, how many have actually been executed? Hint: You won't need more than 10 fingers to count them.
The last -- Stephen Wayne Anderson, who killed an 81-year-old piano teacher during a burglary -- was in January 2002. And 20 1/2 years passed from the day he was sentenced to the day he drew his last breath. That's common for a state where appeals seem to move at a glacial pace.
Small wonder that inmates, when asked, say they expect to be on "Death Row" for life -- unless, of course, they're freed on appeal. "This is my retirement plan," Richard James Farley reportedly told journalists on a recent tour of San Quentin prison near San Francisco. Farley signed up for his plan by gunning down seven people in 1988.
The trial of Peterson, the ex-fertilizer salesman convicted of strangling his wife and unborn son and dumping them into San Francisco Bay, is now in the penalty phase. Relatives of his dead wife have had their say. Now Peterson's are ...
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- Newspaper article from: California Planning & Development Report Shigley, Paul April 1, 2005 700+ words
...to build a new death row at San Quentin, but elected...which is what the death row project would...dispute that San Quentin occupies prime...million for a death row that could accommodate...male inmates at San Quentin. The 618,0000...
- Peterson enters San Quentin death row.
- News wire article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) March 17, 2005 700+ words
...616th man on the state's Death Row. Sgt. Eric Messick, a San Quentin State Prison spokesman, said...which is also used to house Death Row's highest-risk inmates...grooming standards in effect at San Quentin: Hair trimmed above the ears...
- San Quentin Deals With Life Near Death Row.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 10, 2005 700+ words
...Such is life in San Quentin Village, a community...California's death row. Executions always...O.. Box in San Quentin, Calif. because...that I live on death row," Siegel said...Patrol ordered San Quentin Village residents...
- Transferring California Death Row Inmates.(California State Assembly passes...
- Newspaper article from: Corrections Compendium Harry, Jennifer L. July 1, 2001 700+ words
...problems created by San Quentin Prison's dilapidated and crowded death row, the California...since the 1930s that death row inmates would be...somewhere other than San Quentin. "This bill is not about moving death row," said Assemblyman...
- Dean of Death Row.(San Quentin State Prison's spokesman, Vernell Crittendon)
- Magazine article from: The New Yorker Friend, Tad July 30, 2007 700+ words
...years served as San Quentin State Prison...quiet years on death row, the inmate with...as the crimes of death-row residents whose...recently arrived at San Quentin, might enjoy...the inmates on death row, who've all...
- Near death row at San Quentin, the living is easy.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 10, 2005 700+ words
...Such is life in San Quentin Village, a community...California's death row. Executions always...of characters to San Quentin. With them have...O.. Box in San Quentin, Calif. because...that I live on death row," Siegel said...
- Scott Peterson is transferred to death row at San Quentin prison.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 17, 2005 700+ words
...his wrists and waist, Scott Peterson was taken to death row at San Quentin State Prison early Thursday after being sentenced...heavy security from the San Mateo County jail to San Quentin before dawn. The infamous prison, which overlooks...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 17, 2005 700+ words
...Peterson sets foot on death row. Tonight, his...words, uttered to a San Quentin prison guard...by-five cell on San Quentin's death row. The man who received...should be sent, death row in San Quentin. Beneath the standard...
- 49ers rookies will get a taste of San Quentin.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Georgatos, Dennis May 31, 2002 700+ words
...the bleak prison landscape at San Quentin from his visit a year ago...chance Saturday to walk through San Quentin's cell blocks, prison yard...as a chaplain for inmates on San Quentin's Death Row, said he sees benefits in the...
- Peterson to Await Death at San Quentin.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 17, 2005 700+ words
...state's condemned prisoners are housed at San Quentin. San Quentin also houses 5,300 other prisoners, but...Chowchilla, but they would be brought to San Quentin to be executed. Death row, built in 1934 and designed to handle 68...