A new book by former L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark raises questions about the tactics used to convict Barbara Graham, the ...

Behind the bleak concrete walls of California’s San Quentin state prison ... cell 15 paces from the door of the gas chamber —Brown received a State Department telegram advising him that ...

Abbott, 29, found guilty of murdering a teen-aged girl, would die in San Quentin’s gas chamber ... the Abbott cellar—was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his ...

In 1989, Ronaldo Ayala was sentenced to death for murdering three men in a San Diego auto repair shop. Instead of facing the gas chamber ... from San Quentin to Centinela state prison as Gov.