How they died; CREDIT: Doug Stevens Los Angeles Times; GRAPHIC: Many sentenced, few executed; CREDIT: Doug Stevens Los Angeles Times; SAN QUENTIN PRISON: Death row inmates are taken to pens for exercise. Although the state has 640 inmates on death row, about 20% of the nation's total, it has accounted for only 1% of all executions since they were reinstated in California in 1978.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Robert Durell Los Angeles Times; 27- YEAR LEGACY: A guard checks death row cells. Only 11 killers have been executed since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978. "The system is twisted and corrupted in ways that were not anticipated," says [Dane Gillette], a senior assistant attorney general.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Robert Durell Los Angeles Times; VIGIL: Protesters gather outside San Quentin Prison on Jan. 19 as [Donald Beardslee], 61, is executed by lethal injection 24 years after confessing to the murders of two Bay Area women.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Robert Durell Los Angeles Times; BD27-YEAR LEGACY: An officer checks death row cells. "The system is twisted and corrupted in ways that were not anticipated," said Dane Gillette, a senior assistant attorney general.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Clay McLachlan Reuters; BDCOSTLY DECISION: A death row inmate is led into a cellblock at San Quentin State Prison. Maintaining the death penalty system costs state taxpayers more than $114 million a year.; PHOTOGRAPHER: [Ronald M. George] Nikitin Associated Press