Photos: New lethal injection chamber unveiled

Straps hang from the gurney inside the new lethal injection chamber. The facility cost $853,000 and was built with inmate labor.
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Inmate Albert Greenwood Brown is scheduled to die Sept. 29.
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Death row inmates would be strapped to this gurney in the lethal injection chamber, and three drugs would be administered intravenously.
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A view of the holding room where death-row inmates can talk to a priest or lawyer before execution at San Quentin State Prison.
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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.
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Press Information Officer Lt. Sam Robinson holds cell keys outside the new lethal injection chamber.
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