it’s a small yard, you’re still locked down,” said Marcus Adams, describing what it’s been like living on San Quentin’s death row. He was originally sentenced to death for triple murder ...

There’s an utterly new feeling at San Quentin’s Death Row these days, and it’s not just for the people running the place. You can feel it like electricity all up and down the grim ...

The state’s plans to turn San Quentin prison into a model rehabilitation center means moving death row inmates to other high-security prisons. Many have already been moved out of the bayfront ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

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 ...

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 ...