The Death Penalty - California

[Ayatollahgondola]

These links are to documents I've started to upload from the files of the Warden and San Quentin during the years 1893 through 1944. Seems California had a pretty active gallows early on, executing hundreds of convicts during that period. Hanging was the prescribed treatment, and appeals were very short, and often denied. The time frame between judgement of the court and time of death was around two years on average. Seems the sheriff and court would deliver a prisoner to the warden, and the warden would deliver a corpse two years later. Anyway, I'll be uploading more documents over the next month as I obtain them, but here is the first batch:

http://publicdocumentdistributors.co...2&d=1284782169


http://publicdocumentdistributors.co...3&d=1284783369

Here is a death warrant from the 1920's, written by hand as many were at the time:

J Hendrix by the way....hope he wasn't a geeetar player

http://publicdocumentdistributors.co...1&d=1284780849

And here is a copy of the report from another convict whose cause of death was officially designated "fracture of the neck".

http://saveourstate.info/attachment....1&d=1284708165