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  • A quieter protest outside San Quentin this time-About 300 people,some of them kin,in the glare of TV

    01/17/2006 12:58:44 PM PST · by SmithL · 18 replies · 555+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/17/6 | Peter Fimrite
    With no celebrity inmate in the execution chamber this time, the ranks of death penalty protesters were considerably thinner Monday night outside San Quentin State Prison. Only about 300 people turned out to protest the execution of Clarence Ray Allen, some of whom were the 76-year-old inmate's relatives. The scene was familiar: TV lights blazing, people shivering in the night air and waves lapping on the shoreline of the bay. But Allen's execution did not draw the oratory of the Rev. Jesse Jackson or the folk-singing of Joan Baez, both of whom were among the 2,000 people outside San Quentin's...