Box 5

A series of undated photographs of the San Quentin State Prison and the original film and a copy of the French book, Les Crematories D’Auschwitz: La Machinerie du Meurtre de Masse by Jean-Claude Pressac.

Copy of the opinion by Judge Fisher for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals case California First Amendment Coalition v. James Woodford; Arthur Calderon; James Gomez about which stages of executions witnesses are allowed to be present for.

A transcription of the gallery text panels from the exhibit “Police Pictures: The Photographs as Evidence” that was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art and on display from October 17, 1997- January 20, 1998. The the text panels were titled “Race, Heredity, and the Criminal,” “American Outlaws,” “Political and Social Outcasts,” “Mug Shots and Evidence,” “Social Perspectives on the Criminal,” “Criminal Files,” and “Surveillance and Identity.”

This folder includes multiple copies of a list of executions by lethal gas in San Quentin between 1940 and 1993. Each copy is either sorted by date, alphabetically by name, time to apparent unconsciousness, time to certain unconsciousness, time until death, and minimum time of conscious pain.

This folder includes a copy of the redacted version of the San Quentin Industrial Procedure No. 796 regarding the lethal gas chamber. It was originally written in 1984 and revised in 1992.

Includes an essay by James Thompson about the life and execution of Young Elk, emails with press releases about the death of Young Elk and the denial of his last rites, and a copy of an emergency motion filed to allow Young Elk to receive his last rites.

Videocassette tapes titled “Gas Chamber/Death Row” by CDC Communications and “Robert Harris Clemency Video for Gov. Wilson” by the California Appellate Project.

Videocassette tape titled "Gas Chamber/Death Row” by CDC Communications and a copy of the 1995 documentary by Jaap Van Hoewijk, Procedure 769: The Witness to the Execution of Robert Allen Harris.