CDCR NEWS:
SAN QUENTIN – Condemned inmate Kenneth
Friedman, 58, who was on California’s death row from Los Angeles County, was
pronounced dead at San Quentin State Prison early Sunday morning, August 26,
2012 at 5:24 a.m. The death is being investigated as a suicide.
Friedman was single-celled.
NEWS:
Division of Juvenile Justice
By Dennis Flynn is patiently
awaiting Thursday. That's the deadline for Gov. Jerry Brown has to sign into
law SB9, a bill proposed by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, which
would let some prisoners appeal lifetime sentences they received for crimes
committed when they were juveniles.
By Megan Burke, Maureen
Cavanaugh, KPBS-- Hope for criminals who were
sentenced as juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole
hangs in the balance.
California Inmates
By State prison officials and the
FBI on Sunday escorted death row inmate Wesley Shermantine to Linden in an
ongoing search for the remains of murder victims he and boyhood friend Loren
Herzog discarded over a 15-year killing spree.
By C. Johnson, News 10-- A source says so-called "Speed Freak Killer" Wesley
Shermantine was temporarily released from San Quentin's death row to aid the
FBI in the search for additional victims.
L.A. Now-- Prison officials suspect suicide
after a death row inmate at San Quentin was found dead early Sunday morning.
The Associated Press-- The California Supreme Court has
tossed out the death penalty of a man convicted of killing two San Jose
jewelers more than 25 years ago.
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