San Quentin’s death row inmates

Media members tour Death Row in the East Block at San Quentin prison in December 2015.

Darren Stanley, now suffering from dementia and psychosis, was found permanently incompetent to assist lawyers in 2013.

San Quentin State Prison death row inmate Ron Bell now suffers from severe dementia and is bedridden.

Framed by some of the old ironwork, Tower One at San Quentin State Prison has a commanding view of the front of the prison and of San Francisco Bay.

The door to Condemned Row.

Condemned inmate Douglas Clark in the Adjusment Center at San Quentin prison.

The pictures of condemned inmate Horace Kelly through his years of incarceration at San Quentin.

John Dunkle is one of the 747 people on death row.

The door to one of the cell blocks in the Adjustment Center is locked while guards supervise work being done in one of the housing units at San Quentin prison.

A guard watches the movement of the prisoners being escorted across the yard at San Quentin State Prison.

Donald Milwee is partially paralyzed from a stroke and has diminished capacity to speak. In a psychiatric exam Milwee could not recall the name of his mother, whom he killed.

Death row inmate James Nelson Blair from the condemned files at San Quentin State Prison.

A death row inmate is escorted across the yard away from the East Block at San Quentin prison.

Richard Dean Turnerm who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia/psychosis, shot to death an elderly San Bernardino County couple and their dog during a 1979 home invasion robbery.

A guard stands watch with his weapon in East Block, where many of the men on death row are housed at San Quentin State Prison.

Jonathon D’Arcy was initially incompetent to stand trial but was tried after a stay at a state hospital. He has been waiting six years for appointment of a lawyer for his state habeas appeal.

Donald Milwee is one of the 737 inmates on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

East Block houses most of the inmates on death row at San Quentin State Prison.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A guard stands watch over the condemned prisoners housed in East Block of Death Row at San Quentin prison.

Death row inmate Joseph Danks from the condemned files at San Quentin State Prison.

Death row inmate Ronald Bell suffers from severe dementia and is bedridden.