Maryline Rodriguez with a model of a gurney strapped to her back at Amnesty International's "Stop Death Penalty in Texas Now" demonstration outside...
Sandra Reed, mother of Rodney Reed, cries outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2022. - The US Supreme Court will hear an...
An anti-death penalty demonstrator stands outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2022. - The US Supreme Court will hear an...
Sign at the entrance to the Death Row unit on April 16, 1997 at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas USA. Texas has about 450 prisoners on death row. The...
Anti-death penalty activist Delia Perez Meyer , who's brother has been on death row in Texas for 11 years addresses a rally outside the US Supreme...
Anti-death penalty protestors wait to be arrested by Texas Rangers after blockading the entrance to Governor George Bush's capital residence on June...
Members of the Bill Glass Prison Ministry pose for a photograph after visiting death row inmates in May, 1998 at the Ellis Unit, outside of...
Prisoner sits in his death row cell. The state of Texas executes more people than all of the other states combined. Using lethal injection, Texas has...
Swiches and lights in the Texas death house. The state of Texas executes more people than all of the other states combined. Using lethal injection,...
The Ellis Unit of the Texas prison system contains criminals on death row. Inmates are watched by two guards.
Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, holds the state's death row inmates. Since 1976, the state of Texas has lead the nation in prison executions.
Death row inmate Arthur Lee Burton, who in 1997 raped and killed a jogger, is shown on zoom in court as Harris County DA asks Judge Ramona Franklin...
This image, combining two undated handout photos from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, shows death row inmates Roberto Moreno Ramos and...
James Fitzgerald Jr., the adopted son of a couple who were shot and killed in 1990, testifies in the second punishment phase for death row inmate...
== With AFP Story by Chantel VALERY: US-JUSTICE-EXECUTION-500th == Anthony Graves who spent 18 years in US jail, including 16 years on death row, for...
Kent Whitaker, father of Bart Whitaker, a Sugar Land man who is on death row for arranging the murders of his family members in 2003, talks about his...
Texas death row inmate James Colburn, 42-years-old, is shown in this Texas Department of Criminal Justice file photo in Huntsville, Texas. Colburn is...
Photo of Harold Cassell next to a polaroid photo of death row inmate Claude Jones and brother Travis Jones on his last day before his execution....
Anibal Rousseau sits on death row in Livingston, TX as he waits for a decision on his request for a new trial. Photo by Steve Campbell HOUCHRON...
Anibal Rousseau sits on death row in Livingston, TX as he waits for a decision on his request for a new trial. Photo by Steve Campbell
Anibal Rousseau sits on death row in Livingston, TX as he waits for a decision on his request for a new trial. Photo by Steve Campbell
Death row inmate Robert Morrow was convicted of abducting ad murdering Lisa Allison of Liberty County. He is awaiting execution at TDCJ's Polunsky...
Demarco McCullum is scheduled to be executed for the 1994 slaying/robbery of Michael Burzinski. He is awaiting execution at TDCJ's Polunsky Unit in...
Peter J. Miniel is being held on death row in the TDCJ's Polunsky Unit in Livingston, TX. Miniel, who is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 6, was...
Keri Blakinger interviews death row inmate Joseph Garcia at Polunksy Unit on Wednesday, Oct. 31 in Livingston.
Exonerated Texas death row inmate Anthony Graves, center, accompanied by his son Terrance Williams, right and Graves' brother Derrick Curry left,...
Irvin "Blackie" Thompson and Joe Palmer, convicts under order of execution in the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. They escaped by surprising...
Coy Wayne Wesbrook sits in a visitation cell at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in Livingston. Westbrook...
Coy Wayne Wesbrook sits in a visitation cell at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in Livingston. Westbrook...
Coy Wayne Wesbrook sits in a visitation cell at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in Livingston. Westbrook...
Crosses mark Texas inmates'' graves April 23, 1997 in Huntsville, Texas. About 1300 prisoners from the Texas prison system are buried here, among...
The execution bed sits empty on Death Row April 25, 1997 at Texas Death Row in Huntsville, Texas. About 450 prisoners are on the Row. Texas has the...
Death row inmate Ronald Ray Howard and an unidentified prisoner play basketball April 21, 1997 in the exercise area of the Ellis Unit Death Row in...
The entrance door to the most segregated prisoners on Death Row is kept closed April 23, 1997 at Texas Death Row in Huntsville, Texas.The state of...
Texas Death Row inmate Richard Foster, left, and an unidentified felon stand outside their cells April 16, 1997 at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas...
Texas Death Row inmate Carl Buntion sits in the visitor area of Ellis Unit at Huntsville Prison April 12, 1997 in Huntsville, Texas. Buntion has a...
Ronald Ray Howard sews in a garmet factory April 21, 1997 at the Ellis Unit Death Row in Huntsville, Texas USA. He was convicted of murder when was...
Texas Death Row photographed April 18, 1997 at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas. About 450 prisoners are on death row in Texas, which executes more...
Prison guards lock up a death row inmate April 14, 1997 in Ellis Unit at Huntsville Prison in Hunstville, Texas. About 450 prisoners are on death row...
Texas prison break ringleader George Rivas poses for a mugshot in this undated police photo. A Texas judge sentenced Rivas to death August 29, 2001...
Protesters react to news June 22, 2000 that death row inmate Gary Graham has run out of appeals and is going to be executed by lethal injection in a...
Protesters use a fake needle to inject a burning effigy of Texas Governor George W. Bush with "Texas style justice" June 22, 2000 after the execution...
Texas death row inmate Alexander Martinez who was convicted for a murder robbery he committed in 2001, photographed during a Houston Chronicle...
Coy Wayne Wesbrook sits in a visitation cell at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in Livingston. Westbrook...
Juan Garcia sits in a visitation cell at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Pollunsky Unit Wednesday, Sept. 30 in Livingston. Garcia is...
Ronald Jeffery Prible gives an interview in the visitation area at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Aug. 26 in...
Ronald Jeffery Prible poses for a photo in the visitation area at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Aug. 26 in...
Ronald Jeffery Prible gives an interview in the visitation area at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Aug. 26 in...
Ronald Jeffery Prible poses for a photo in the visitation area at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit on Wednesday, Aug. 26 in...
Death Row inmate Franklin DeWayne Alix poses for a photo in the visitation area of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunsky Unit...
Death Row inmate Franklin DeWayne Alix poses for a photo in the visitation area of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunsky Unit...
Dennis Longmire, of Huntsville, and a Criminal Justice professor stands with other death penalty opponents, during the execution of Samuel Gallamore,...
Lina Jean from Guadeloupe, shows a picture of her two youngest sons, Joel and Joseph, at her home in Baytown, Texas, on October 17, 2022. - Joseph...
People wait in line outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2022. - The US Supreme Court will hear an appeal today from a...
Roderick Reed, brother of Rodney Reed, and Sandra Reed, mother of Rodney Reed, pray with supporters outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC,...
Death row inmate Hank Skinner speaks during an interview with AFP, in the visiting room at the Allan B. Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, on May...
Death row inmate Hank Skinner speaks during an interview with AFP, in the visiting room at the Allan B. Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, on May...