My 40th Birthday on Death Row
I turned forty recently. (Please hold the applause.) Never in a billion years would I have ever envisioned that I would hit the big 4-0 birthday on death row. Courtesy of Charles Mamou When I was free, I was [...]
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From A Childhood In Hell To Death Row
One day the neighbors heard screams coming from our house and called the authorities. When the police came, they found four grossly abused kids. A childhood from hell.
Poetry on Death Row Saved Me
In 2000, I was 23 and struggling to find myself in a sea of death row madness. The madness wasn't just from the inmates there, and their stories, but from the situation itself. Basically, you grew or you stagnated. To grow [...]
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My Life on Death Row in San Quentin
From December 17,2003 to February 9, 2004, the prison guards and administration at this modem day plantation changed me, rearranged me, oppressed me, regressed me, repressed me, depressed me and undressed me in order to murder me. They had me bend [...]
My Only Visitor On Death Row
The visit is today. I’m so excited. I’ve been looking forward to it for months. I’m showered and freshly scrubbed. I dress in my cleanest, brightest state issue clothing. I brush my teeth. It is my first and possibly only [...]
Kenneth Foster: I Survived Death Row
Once upon a time I was a Death Row inmate, Level 3. What that means is I was the residue at the bottom of the barrel. There is absolutely nothing below that in the world we call PRISON except one [...]
How The State Of Indiana Killed Michael Daniels
On September 14, 1979, Michael William Daniels’ sentencing order directed that he be executed “in a manner prescribed by law, before sunrise on March 28, 1980.” Within an hour he was triple-shackled and in a van on his way to [...]
Ted Bundy’s Daughter
Where is Ted Bundy's Daughter? Charles Norman, who has been in prison for decades, knew Ted Bundy, knows how he was able to impregnate a woman while on death row, and reveals a conversation he had where Bundy confided in him about his last victim.
I Spent 20 Years on Death Row
I was captain of the football team. I broke many track and field records. I got good grades in school and even got a scholarship to college – how did it come to this? I found it hard to believe that I had sunk so low.
I’ve Been On Death Row Since I Was 21
How do you explain the situation of facing execution? It took time, a lot of practice, and this overwhelming need to be understood before my writing could evolve enough to help others see from my eyes.
What “Life” Is About on Death Row
I arrived to death row on August 28, 2000. I did not think I’d still be alive 14 years later, but here I am. Surely, we will all experience death. However, I suppose true death cannot be hastened, or put [...]
Is Life Without Parole Worse Than A Death Sentence?
Courtesy, Joseph Dole Why I Am Still on Death Row by Joseph Dole I was never on “death row.” Instead of being sentenced to death by execution, I was sentenced to death by incarceration or Life-Without-Parole (LWOP), the invisible [...]