Posted on 09/22/2010 3:47:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
San Quentin death chamber ready for use
Officials say a death chamber at San Quentin State Prison is ready for a scheduled execution next week -- if a federal judge lifts his moratorium on lethal injections. The media got a rare glimpse of the $835,000 facility on the same day lawyers for Attorney General Jerry Brown were scheduled to urge U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel to allow the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown. The death row inmate is scheduled to die Sept. 29 for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside County girl abducted on her way home from school in 1980.
"We are fully prepared to carry out an execution," prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said as he led members of the media on a tour of the lethal injection facility completed in 2008 -- two years after Fogel halted executions in California and ordered prison officials to improve procedures for administering lethal injections. Located near death row, the white, cinder block, 11-room death chamber has a main viewing room where nearly 30 officials and media can witness an execution through a glass window.
The sterile-looking facility also has separate eyewitness rooms for the families of victims and inmates.
Prisoners spend their final six hours in a secluded holding cell area that has a phone and flat-screen television, without cable. There's also a small area next to the holding cell where they can talk to lawyers and priests, if requested. The injection room is equipped with a green gurney with numerous straps and buckles. Behind the room is a control center where the execution team can create the lethal cocktail for execution.
The center has four phones to contact the governor, state Supreme Court, attorney general and warden at a moment's notice.
"The phones are connected to all those entities to make sure the inmates' legal rights are upheld," Robinson said
San Quentin inmates helped build the facility.
This poor girl’s rights of course didn’t count...
Let’s see who will try to stop this well deserved execution.
The next sound you would hear would be the flushing of their career down the toilet, in a normal world, but this is California where the Left doesn’t care about the victims of horrible crimes.
Maybe shithead Villagarosa will speak up. He’s just a big enough fool to do it. Hope he does.
I’ve got only two questions.
1. How many can they send through per hour?
2. When can we get started?
California has at the very minimum, 700 families waiting for justice.
For lack of a better term, let’s get this party started.
Let’s pipe in some appropriate music for the condemned as they contemplate departing their mortal coils. I’d suggest “25 Minutes To Go” by Johnny Cash.
Oh no, television WITHOUT cable on Death Row.
The constitution prohibits cruel and unusuable punishment, but makes no promise of a painless execution.
Villaragosa - the philandering, former SEIU, MeCHA, La Raza, bankrupty inducing, Laker-ticket taking, open borders midget?
Chilling.
Also note that Jerry Brown has been a life-long opponent of the death penalty in CA. NOW, he flip-flops and he is now FOR the death penalty.
It is an interesting election year.
Justice delayed is Justice Denied.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
You can build a gallows for well under $1000. All the materials are biodegradable and recyclable, and the rope can be reused as well. Come on California, show the world that you are at the forefront of renewable, green technology.
It’s sad that hanging, the electric chair or the gas chamber aren’t used any longer for executions. Death by lethal injection are just too hospital-like and antiseptic for my liking.
I wonder why the same reasoning which okayed the starvation death of Terri Schiavo isn’t used with the capital crimes perps? ... It is such an euphoric way to die don’tchaknow!
I wonder why the same reasoning which okayed the starvation death of Terri Schiavo isn’t used with the capital crimes perps? ... It is such an euphoric way to die don’tchaknow!
I am ok with the swift and certain delivery of justice. But how can the mans civil rights be flatly denied—how can he be executed without access to cable tv in the day prior?
No justice no peace. A pardon is in order and jerry brown is the guy to deliver it. No justice no peace.
I think a guillotine is even cheaper and endlessly reusable. Just sharpen the blade every hundred executions.
If only this (”open for business”) were meaningfully true. I’ve heard that many killers actually hope to receive a death sentence in CA b/c they know the odds are that they will die of natural causes. In the meantime, death row gets them a private prison cell.
$835,000? What’s wrong; don’t they have baseball bats in California?
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