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With what the Sacramento Bee called a “twisted sense of timing,” California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced in mid-August that he plans to borrow $64.7 million from the state’s general fund to move forward with construction of a new death row at San Quentin State Prison. According to a Bee editorial, “the administration’s call for bids to build new digs for condemned […]

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Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

Voices from Solitary: Life on Level 3, Texas Death Row

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau

Live from Death Row: 3,600 Americans Waiting Alone to Die

The Machinery of Death: Some Death Row Prisoners Can Still Opt for Firing Squad (or Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or Noose)

Dead Man Killing Himself

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Georgia’s Response to Death Row Suicides: Restrict Family Visits

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish