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Death Row

The death row population has been declining over the past 18 years due to sentence reversals, executions and deaths by other causes, but there are still about 2,500 incarcerated individuals on death row as of 2021 according to the Death Penalty Information Center . These are stories from and about death row.

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A gavel rests on the black table
Posted inEssays & Memoirs

The Day I Got My Death Sentence

by John Merritt August 20, 2023August 18, 2023
Interior of Idaho State Capitol building
Posted inQ&A

Q&A: Why These Women Oppose Death by Firing Squad 

by Gwendolyn Burton-Green May 23, 2023May 25, 2023
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Posted inPerspective

In the Depths of Death Row, a Light

by Chef C April 9, 2023April 14, 2023
Side of a building at San Quentin State Prison, covered with razor wire
Posted inPerspective

California’s Effort to Integrate Death Row Inmates is Misguided

by Tue Kha May 31, 2022August 11, 2022
Posted inEssays & Memoirs

Mail Call on Death Row in Texas

by Kenneth Vodochodsky April 21, 2022August 11, 2022
Posted inPerspective

Touching The Clouds

by Juan Villa Ramirez February 11, 2022February 20, 2022
Posted inPerspective

Pandemic Life is Like Death Row

by Joseph Kekoa Manibusan February 10, 2022August 11, 2022
Posted inPoetry

Condemned Row

by Christopher Henriquez January 27, 2022February 7, 2022
Posted inEssays & Memoirs, Perspective

Leaving My Home on San Quentin’s Death Row

by Bob R. Williams Jr. January 21, 2022April 28, 2022
Posted inPoetry

Prison Is Like a Fiery Furnace

by Aaron McCoy August 17, 2021August 9, 2022

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