The lethal injunction chamber at San Quentin Prison is rarely used, and it could be abolished forever.
In the wake of yesterday’s [Wed/16] judicial ruling that California’s death penalty system is unconstitutional— with federal District Judge Cormac Carney calling it arbitrary and so subject to endless delay that it “serves no penological purpose” — San Franciscans could play a key role in converting the ruling into an abolition of capital punishment.Read more »