Gov. Gavin Newsom halts executions | A look inside San Quentin’s death row

Death row inmate John Abel at San Quentin State Prison. In 1991 Abel shot a Tulare County merchant in the head as the merchant left a bank parking lot with $20,000 in cash.

Death row inmate Javier Victorianne watches television at San Quentin State Prison. Victorianne sexually assaulted and killed two women, one 37, one 16, in Riverside County a year apart after they rebuffed his sexual advances. He left their bodies bound and hanging.

Death row inmate Clifton Perry at San Quentin State Prison. Perry and a partner were convicted of murder for the 1995 shooting death of a store clerk during a robbery of a convenience store in Kings County.

Condemned inmate Robert Galvan gets some exercise in the yard in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin prison.

A death row inmate makes his way to his East Block cell after spending time in the yard at San Quentin State Prison.

A guard escorts a death row prisoner through East Block at San Quentin State Prison.

A death row inmate gets some phone time on the East Block at San Quentin prison.

A guard watches the hallway in the Corrections Center at San Quentin State Prison while contractors do some work on the building.

East Block at San Quentin State Prison.

The entrance to the East Block of death row at San Quentin State Prison. San Quentin opened in July 1852. It is the oldest prison in California.