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Inside San Quentin's Death Row, Inmates Disagree on Capital Punishment

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A new Field Poll on the death penalty shows Californians are almost evenly split between putting an end to executions and speeding them up. We get a rare glimpse inside of a place most of us will never visit -- and wouldn't want to: death row at San Quentin Prison. It houses some of the state's most notorious criminals. But the reality is executions are few and far between. It was 10 years ago this weekend that the last condemned inmate was put to death. Journalists rarely see death row, or talk to the prisoners there. KQED's Politics and Government Editor Scott Shafer got to do just that, and he found a wide range of opinions about capital punishment.

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