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The San Quentin Six were six inmates at San Quentin State Prison in the U.S. state of California who were charged with actions related to an August 21, 1971, escape attempt that resulted in six deaths and at least two people seriously wounded.
Manuel Pina "Manny" Babbitt (May 3, 1949 – May 4, 1999) was a U.S. Marine veteran of the Vietnam War who was convicted of the murder of a 78-year-old woman, Leah Schendel, during a burglary in Sacramento, California in 1980. [1]
On August 21, 1971, George Jackson led an escape attempt from San Quentin Prison, where the Soledad Brothers had been transferred. During the early hours of the day, Jackson told Drumgo: [5] "Saturday, August 21, 1971. This is a day the motherfuckers will remember: the day we got the gun in"
[6] [7] Vincent Brothers: F90651 Convicted of killing his wife, mother-in-law, and three children in 2003. [8] [9] Albert Greenwood Brown: C43700 Convicted of the 1980 rape and murder of Susan Jordan, and Brown was supposed to be executed in 2010, but was called off. [10] [11] Luis Bracamontes: BG0828 Convicted of murdering two police officers ...
The escape attempt sparked a riot which left six people dead. The 16-month trial of the San Quentin Six was the longest in the state's history at the time and was dubbed "The Longest Trial" by Time magazine. [5] [6] Talamantez was found not guilty on all charges in 1971, and was released on parole on August 20, 1976. [7]
California prison officials announced they will move the last 457 condemned prisoners out of San Quentin's death row by summer. They will be transferred to other state prisons and housed in the ...
The Soledad Brothers were three inmates charged with the murder of a prison guard, John Vincent Mills, at California's Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. [1] George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette were alleged to have murdered Mills in retaliation for the shooting deaths of three black prisoners during a prison fight in the exercise yard three days prior by another guard, Opie G ...
Its 737 residents, all still technically under sentence of death, are slowly being moved away from the condemned cells at San Quentin, a place where California has, by three successive methods ...