As COVID-19 Ravages California’s Death Row, the State Attorney General Fights to Keep It Packed

As COVID-19 Ravages California’s Death Row, the State Attorney General Fights to Keep It Packed

More than a year after California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, issued a moratorium on executions, condemned prisoners are facing a new lethal enemy: COVID-19. San Quentin Prison, where 693 men now live under sentences of death, has been engulfed by the virus.* More than 2,100 people at San Quentin have been afflicted, including nearly one quarter of those on death row. To date, eight death row prisoners have died from complications stemming from COVID-19, comprising half the prison’s fatalities.

Christine Blasey Ford’s Memory of her Assault Isn’t a Case of Mistaken Identity (with Jennifer Thompson)

Christine Blasey Ford’s Memory of her Assault Isn’t a Case of Mistaken Identity (with Jennifer Thompson)

It’s a convenient theory that allows us to believe both the accused and the accuser, but it undermines everything we know about mistaken identity in cases of sexual assault.