Tag: Willard Winhoven

• July 2, 1962 – Crash-out on Condemned Row (Almost).

  

  July 2, 1962 was supposed to be a quiet day on San Quentin’s Condemned Row. Securely lodged on the top floor of North Block, California’s condemned were expecting a summer’s day as bleak, depressing and dull as any other. So were the Condemned Row officers whose job it was to keep them under control. With…

  CrimeScribe

  March 28, 2023

  History, True Crime

  Aaron Mitchell, Alcatraz, Augustine Baldonado, Battle of Alcatraz, California, capital punishment, Clarence Anglin, Clinton Duffy, Condemned Row, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, death sentence, electric chair, Elizabeth Duncan, executed, execution, Frank Lee Morris, gas chamber, History, John Anglin, Luis Moya, Miran Thompson, murder, Oklahoma, Sam Shockley, San Quentin, San Quentin Prison, Sizzling Sally, true crime, Warden Clinton Duffy, Willard Winhoven