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Faces of Death Row. Editor’s note: As of August 2023, the Tribune is no longer updating this page. Here is a look at the 184 inmates currently on Texas' death row. Texas, which reinstated the death penalty in 1976, has the most active execution chamber in the nation. On average, these inmates have spent 18 years, 4 months on death row.
2. Nothing is automated. Each cell is opened and closed by hand. 3. Unlike inmates in the general population, where men are kept two to a cell and have access to enrichment programs, inmates on death row spend most of their days alone. 4. If you think it's lonely and isolating, you're right. 4.
- Kenneth Fults. Kenneth Fults, who was executed in Georgia on April 12, 2016, spent 18 years on death row. He was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of his neighbor and was 47 years old when he was executed by lethal injection.
- Christopher Brooks. Christopher Brooks, who was executed in Alabama on January 21, 2016, was sentenced to death for the 1992 rape and beating death of a 23-year-old woman.
- William Cary Sallie. William Cary Sallie, who was executed in Georgia on December 6, 2016, spent 26 years on death row. He was sentenced to death in 1991 for a violent rampage against his ex-wife and her family, in which he killed her father, wounded her mother, then kidnapped his ex-wife and her sister, raping both women repeatedly.
- Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who was executed in Florida on January 7, 2016, spent 23 years on death row. The serial killer, who was convicted of murdering three young women back in 1986, was 53 years old at the time of his death and was executed via lethal injection.
- John Wayne Gacy. John Wayne Gacy was put to death in Illinois by lethal injection at the age of 52. He was sentenced to death for rape and 33 counts of murder.
- Timothy McVeigh. Timothy McVeigh, the American terrorist behind the Oklahoma City bombing, was put to death in Indiana by lethal injection at the age of 33.
- Ricky Ray Rector. was put to death in Arkansas by lethal injection at the age of 42. He was sentenced to death for two counts of murder. For his last meal, Rector - mentally incapacitated during his time on death row, his defense team argued - requested steak, fried chicken, cherry Kool-Aid, and pecan pie.
- Stephen Anderson. Stephen Anderson was put to death in California by lethal injection at the age of 49. He was sentenced to death for burglary, assault, seven counts of murder, and escaping from prison.
15 years, 39 days. Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss. Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 198 days. Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance. Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 49 days.
May 16, 2013 · Paula Cooper, once a teen on Indiana's death row, was released from prison on Monday, June 17. She spent 27 years behind bars for stabbing a 78-year-old Bible teacher Ruth Pelke in the stomach and ...
Sep 19, 2015 · September 19, 2015, 12:29am. All photos courtesy of Apexart. Earlier this year Ron Cauthern and Harold Wayne Nichols, two death row inmates at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution just ...
