There are currently 737 inmates on the state's death row, the nation's largest. Among the condemned inmates, here are some of the Bay Area's notorious killers.

A rare peek at life as an inmate inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison’s death row in San Quentin, Calif. Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Photos by Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner. Wayne Adam ...

San Quentin State prison could soon be transformed. An advisory council was tasked with coming up with ideas to change California's oldest prison into a rehabilitation space. 24/7 Live San ...

A former guard at San Quentin State Prison was sentenced Friday to federal prison after he was convicted for smuggling phones onto death row, ... along with 32-year-old Isaiah Wells of Tracy, ...

SAN QUENTIN — A dozen years ago, state prison officials opened up this infamous death row for a tour to demonstrate the crumbling, overcrowded cells housing the 600 killers then awaiting execution.

San Quentin State Prison has always been home to those responsible for the most horrific suffering, but change in its infamous death row block is coming.Since 1893, when the first inmate was hung ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin State Prison is in the process of clearing out death row after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered it to be shut down. San Quentin holds about 3,000 convicted criminals ...

But San Quentin was known primarily for its Death Row, and the prison still houses 546 condemned inmates, including Luis Bracamontes, who gunned down two Sacramento-area sheriff’s deputies in ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – One condemned inmate killed another Friday, the first slaying of a death row inmate in California in more than 20 years, officials said. Jonathan Fajardo, 30, was stabbed in ...

A death row inmate at San Quentin State Prison who has killed two people slashed the face of a correctional officer with a makeshift weapon Thursday, officials said. Anthony Delgado, 49, who has ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - One condemned inmate killed another Friday, the first slaying of a death row inmate in California in more than 20 years, officials said. Jonathan Fajardo, 30, was stabbed ...