Just to round out this afternoon’s deathy trifecta (and such nice sunny weather we’re having!), check out this story about San Quentin’s remodeled execution chamber—it’s more spacious and has “pistachio” vinyl covers on the gurney:

At 200 square feet, the lethal injection chamber built with inmate labor and $853,000 in taxpayer money is more than four times the size of the old metal-walled gas chamber used for two executions by lethal gas and 11 by lethal injection since capital punishment was restored in 1977.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

9 replies on “San Quentin’s Remodeled Execution Chamber”

  4. Nice post. Ask Charles about it? I believe his heroes are the post-structuralists (critical theorists, Frankfurt School, ad Nauseum), and Foucault wrote an eloquent 3-4-5-600 pager on executions and the tortuous subtleties on society that have evolved since the time of regicide and the like.

  5. That’s nice. I’m sure the condemned will appreciate all the fab updating.

    And for the prison guards, well, one’s work environment really needs to be as cheerful and efficient as possible.

    This has been a 100% irony-free post.

  7. When they tore up the linoleum on the old gas chamber, they found some great parquet wood flooring that they sanded and varnished.

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