Common sense needn't be a requirement for a claim--a Montana prisoner, who'd held off his execution through two decades of appeals, finally argued that the length of time he'd had to endure on
death row was unconstitutional.
Inevitably conditions on
Death Row are harsh and dehumanising, compounded by the fact that many of the prisoners have been abandoned by their families and friends, reducing even further their contact with the outside world.
The tapes consisted of Abu-Jamal's musings about prison conditions, with particular focus on the character of life on
death row.
Supreme Court ruling in March in favor of a Texas
death row inmate, Bobby Moore, that invalidated the state's long-standing method of determining if a death-sentenced inmate was intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution.
One
death row prisoner was hanged in Rajan Pur jail for killing his wife over domestic dispute.
A few seniors are on
death row because they committed aggravated murder at an unusually old age.
Among the 38 states with capital punishment laws as of December 2003, California held the most
death row inmates (629), followed by Texas (452), Florida (364) and Pennsylvania (230).
Three men who spent a combined 67 years on
death row were freed recently, bringing to 111 the number of inmates who have been released from
death row since 1973.
Over the past three decades, 102 individuals have been exonerated from
death row in America.
Thomas housing projects to writing to a man on
death row, to visiting a man on
death row, and then being there for him at the end, because he had no one to be there with him.
Dre became a partner in the infamous
Death Row Records.
