Tag: North Block

• On This Day in 1993 – David Mason, the last to enter California’s gas chamber.

  The gas chamber has long been America’s most controversial, debatable, complicated and expensive way to execute its condemned. Since the world’s first judicial gassing (Gee Jon in Nevada in 1924) it has been used by eleven states to execute hundreds of convicts. Serial killer David Mason was the 196th convict to enter California’s chamber and…

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  August 24, 2020

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• San Quentin, Doil Miller and Alfred Dusseldorf – Justice? Or just law?

  

  At San Quentin 7 March 1952 dawned grey and cold, not unusual for the area. The prison’s inmates, then nearly two thousand strong, knew that day was unusual. Two of their number, Miller and Dusseldorf, were to die at 10am that morning for a robbery and murder committed in Alameda in 1949. As they sat…

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  March 25, 2020

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