1897 display newspaper EARLY HANGING EXECUTION at SAN QUENTIN PRISON California for Sale

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1897 display newspaper EARLY HANGING EXECUTION at SAN QUENTIN PRISON California For Sale

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1897 display newspaper EARLY HANGING EXECUTION at SAN QUENTIN PRISON California:
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1897 newspaper with a long and detailedFront Page REPORT, with an illustrationof an EARLY HANGING EXECUTION@ SAN QUENTIN PRISONnear San Francisco, California-inv #5Q-312

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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theSan Jose Mercury (CA) dated December 11, 1897 with a headline, portrait, and news of the EXECUTION by HANGING of a murderer named HARVEY ALLEDER in San Quenton Prison near San Francisco, CA.

All executions in California, of both male and female prisoners, must occur at San Quentin. The execution chamber is located in a one-story addition in proximity to the East Block. Women executed in California would be transported to San Quentin by bus before being put to death.

The methods for execution at San Quentin have changed over time. Prior to 1893, the counties executed convicts. Between 1893 and 1937, 215 people were executed at San Quentin by hanging, after which 196 prisoners died in the gas chamber. In 1995, the use of gas for execution was ruled \"cruel and unusual punishment\", which led to executions inside the gas chamber by lethal injection Between 1996 and 2006, 11 people were executed at San Quentin by lethal injection.

In April 2007, staff of the California Legislative Analyst\'s Office discovered that a new execution chamber was being built at San Quentin; legislators subsequently \"accuse[d] the governor of hiding the project from the Legislature and the public.\" The old lethal injection facility had included an injection room of 43 square feet and a single viewing area; the facility that was being built included an injection chamber of 230 square feet and three viewing areas for family, victim, and press. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped construction of the facility the next week. The legislature later approved $180,000 to finish the project, and the facility was completed.

In addition to state executions, three federal executions have been carried out at San Quentin. Samuel Richard Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson had been incarcerated at Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary and were executed on December 3, 1948, for the murder of two prison guards during the Battle of Alcatraz. Carlos Romero Ochoa had murdered a federal immigration officer after he was caught smuggling illegal immigrants across the border near El Centro, California. He was executed at San Quentin\'s gas chamber on December 10, 1948.

On March 13, 2019, after Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on the state\'s death penalty, the state withdrew its current lethal injection protocol, and San Quentin dismantled and indefinitely closed its gas and lethal injection execution chambers.

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