Coronavirus: These 8 killers died on San Quentin’s Death Row

Endlessly conflicted over capital punishment, California hasn’t executed an inmate in more than 14 years, and although suicide, drug overdoses, inmate murders and old age claim a few of the condemned each year, a new killer has come to Death Row.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic early this year, at least eight condemned inmates are believed to have succumbed to the disease that has swept the 168-year-old San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, where Death Row prisoners traditiona