San Quentin State Prison, opened in 1852 on the shore of San Francisco Bay, is the state’s oldest prison and home to California’s only death row. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)
The lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison, newly built in 2010. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that California’s death penalty violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)
Members of the media get a look inside the new lethal injection chamber at San Quentin State Prison in 2010. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
A view of the lethal injection chamber at San Quentin State Prison. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Death row inmates in the crowded exercise yard of East Block Condemned Row 2 at San Quentin Prison in 2003. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press )
