A view of the holding cell where death-row inmates are held before execution at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California. The federal judge weighing whether California can resume executing condemned prisoners toured the facility’s new lethal injection chamber on Tuesday, February 8, 2011, in what was called a fact-finding mission to help determine whether the state’s revised procedures meet constitutional standards. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT)