Phil Spector found guilty of murder

[JWH]

He won't get the death sentence, that would be like executing Paul McCartney.

Frog Chorus, Hey Jude, Hope of Deliverance...

 

[Geri]

If he were black, poor and thus unable to afford top-notch lawyers, then he'd stand every chance of a visit to San Quentin, followed by a short walk and a long drop.

When was the last time they executed someone at San Quentin?

 

[JWH]

When was the last time they executed someone at San Quentin?

January 2006, according to Wikipedia.

 

[danny la rouge]

that would be like executing Paul McCartney.

John was executed, and he didn't even write "Silly Love Songs".

 

[Bakunin]

When was the last time they executed someone at San Quentin?

San Quentin is the only prison in California where executions are carried out. They were first carried out at Folsom prison by hanging, then at both Folsom and San Quentin, also by hanging. In 1938 the then-new gas chamber was installed at San Quentin which was first used in 1938 IIRC for a double execution as the chamber had two chairs for that very purpose, when San Quentin became the only prison in California used for executions. The gas chamber was eliminated by the California Supreme Court as breaking the Eigth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) in the mid-1990's and since then lethal injection is California's sole method of execution.

Double executions, during the time of the gas chamber, were rare events. But San Quentin was host to a pair of triple executions. Barbara Graham, Emmet Perkins and Jack Santo in 1955 and Elizabeth Duncan, Louis Moya and Augusto Baldonado in 1962. Interestingly enough for what many people think is such a liberal state, California in the 1950's took the mantle of the most frequent state executions, inheriting that distinction from the State of New York which employed the electric chair most commonly known as 'Old Sparky.'

California's inmates referred to the gas chamber as 'the little green room' (it was painted apple green), 'the big sleep', 'the time machine' and, most unpleasantly, 'the coughing box' as inmates were choked to death when the cyanide gas they inhaled induced a state of hypoxia, also known as oxygen starvation.

 

[William of Walworth]

that would be like executing Paul McCartney.

John was executed, and he didn't even write "Silly Love Songs".

LOL!!!