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unusual facts about death row



Forensic psychology

As a result of Ford v. Wainwright, a case by a Florida inmate on death row that was brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, forensic psychologists are appointed to assess the competency of an inmate to be executed in death penalty cases.

Gerald Zerkin

He began private practice in 1978, and began his work defending death row inmates in 1980, including Earl Washington.

Hossein Yari

In 2005, Yari starred in the internationally acclaimed film Dame sobh (دم صبح – Day Break) as a prisoner on Death Row whose execution (with the slim chance of a pardoning) keeps getting postponed.

Joseph Burrows

He was held for nearly five years on death row before being released after his attorney Kathleen Zellner persuaded the real killer to confess at the post-conviction hearing, and Peter Rooney, a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, obtained a recantation from a key witness.

Lowell Lee Andrews

Andrews was on death row at the Lansing Correctional Facility at the same time as Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, murderers of the Clutter family and the subjects of Truman Capote's 1965 book In Cold Blood.

Phyllis Kirk

She vocally opposed death row inmate Caryl Chessman's death sentence and visited Chessman in prison until his execution in 1960.

Ray Krone

Krone was labeled "the snaggle tooth killer" (a feature which has since been corrected) and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a Phoenix, Arizona bartender in 1991.

Samo Sound Boy

Enrolling in college at Sarah Lawrence College, in 2006 at age 20 he took a year off from school and traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina where he experienced his first taste of DJing and dance music at the club Fugees 99 in the city's San Telmo neighborhood, which he describes as "really, really dark, really cheap, and they played basically reggaeton, dancehall, and West Coast hip-hop classics, like Death Row's greatest hits."

The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

Many of the essays are of an autobiographical nature as Ellison writes about particularly colorful moments from his past, including a love affair gone bad with a woman who he identifies only as "Valerie," an infamous diatribe about his hatred of Christmas entitled, "No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!", a touching tribute to his departed dog Ahbhu and a chilling account of his journey to San Quentin State Prison to visit a man on death row.


see also

Al Cliver

He decided on after Al Capone, or Al Pacino and his surname was taken from a death row prisoner who wrote a best selling book.

American Terrorist

American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing (2001) is a book by Buffalo, New York journalists Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck that chronicles the life of Timothy McVeigh from his childhood in Pendleton, New York, to his military experiences in the Persian Gulf War, to his preparations for and carrying out of the Oklahoma City bombing, to his trial and death row experience.

Ann Gotlib

In 1990, Texas Death Row inmate Michael Lee Lockhart claimed to have killed Gotlib and buried her body at Fort Knox and eventually provided a map of the burial site, but after a thorough investigation police found no physical evidence to verify the claim.

Bo Jones

Levon Jones, also known as Bo Jones, American former death row inmate

Capital punishment in Connecticut

Since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia until Connecticut repealed capital punishment in 2012, Connecticut executed one individual, although the law allows executions to proceed for those still on death row and convicted under the previous law.

Capital punishment in Oregon

In 2000, the Benetton Group featured several inmates on Oregon's death row in a controversial, anti-death penalty ad campaign.

Capital punishment in Virginia

Executions are carried out at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, and death row is located at the Sussex State Prison near Waverly, Virginia.

Carol Anne Davis

In Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos, she met one of the surviving victims of Fred and Rosemary West, as well as corresponding with a convicted British serial killer and with a journalist who had spent time with one of America’s cruellest torture-killers, now on death row.

Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar

The Supreme Court of India on 21st January 2014 commuted the death sentence of 15 death row convicts on account of delayed execution and on account of mental health of the convicts.

Earl Washington

Earl Washington, Jr. (born 1960), former Virginia death-row inmate whose conviction was overturned

Forgot About Dre

The song is considered to be a response to disses made by Death Row artists on Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000, a compilation released by Suge Knight which takes its title from Dre's 1992 album The Chronic.

Gina Longo

Gina's father, Lawrence, was Deputy District Attorney and was prosecuting a case of Suge Knight, Death Row Records' CEO.

Huda bin Abdul Haq

Younger brother Amrozi, who is also situated on "death row" for his conviction in the attack, personally selected the Mitsubishi van that was to be used outside the Sari Club.

Insurance Services of America

The events surrounding his discovery of his biological father, who was serving time on death row in a South Korean prison, inspired the making of the film My Father (released in 2007).

Jarvis Jay Masters

He arrived at San Quentin in 1981 at the age of 19 convicted of armed robbery and was moved to death row in 1990 after being convicted of murder for his part in the killing of a prison guard.

Jeanetta Arnette

In 2006, she co-starred in Tori Spelling's VH1 sitcom So NoTORIous and played Sarah Jean, an innocent death row inmate, on CBS' Criminal Minds.

Lynda Lyon Block

During her time on death row, Block was interviewed by writer Tahir Shah, who included her reflections in his book Travels With Myself, in the chapter entitled "Women on Death Row".

Mirza Tahir

Mirza Tahir Hussain (born 1970), British man released on 17 November 2006 after spending 18 years on death row in Pakistan

Murder of Tupac Shakur

Earlier that year, Anderson and a group of Crips had robbed a member of Death Row's entourage in a Foot Locker store.

Organ donation in the United States prison population

garnered notable attention following two highly publicized events: an editorial by condemned prisoner Christian Longo published in the New York Times advocating for the right of fellow death row inmates to donate their organs, and the request by death row inmate Gregory Scott Johnson to have his execution stayed until he could donate a portion of his liver to his debilitated sister.

Paul Crump

William Friedkin produced and directed a documentary for television in 1962, titled The People vs. Paul Crump when Crump had been on death row for nine years.

RBX

The single "A.W.O.L." was an attack on Death Row, Suge Knight, Dre and others, with X comparing the dubious business practices there to the days of Ruthless Records, Jerry Heller, and Eazy-E.

Real Soon

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had agreed to meet with the death row inmate's lawyers, but was not convinced, and so the execution took place on December 13, 2005.

Ricardo Brown

Kurupt (Ricardo Emmanuel Brown, born 1972), American rapper and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records

Rich Crotty

One of the last pieces of legislation he sponsored was the "Junny Rios-Martinez Act" in 1992, named after the victim of former Florida Death Row inmate Mark Dean Schwab, which denied parole and early release to violent sexual predators.

Richard Shindell

His other personas include a New York City cab driver in "Last Fare of the Day," a man on death row in "Ascent," a Civil War widow in "Reunion Hill," and Mary Magdalene.

Ron Smith

Ronald Allen Smith (born 1957), Canadian man on death row in Montana

Sam Sneed

In 2010 Death Row/WIDEawake Entertainment announced the release date (January 25, 2011) for Sam Sneed's album Street Scholars, which contained four unreleased songs from Sneed's time at Death Row, along with 10 newly recorded tracks.

Tha Doggfather

2Pac, who had become a friend of Snoop during 1996, died weeks before the release of Tha Doggfather, and Dr. Dre had left Death Row to his partner Suge Knight, who was indicted on racketeering charges by the end of 1996.

The Death Row Sessions EP

The Death Row Sessions EP is an unofficial bootleg EP/Compilation album by rapper/record producer DJ Quik (as David Blake), released in 2008.

The Thing with Two Heads

As his health rapidly deteriorates, there remains only one alternative: graft Kirshner's head onto the body of a black death row inmate named Jack Moss (Rosey Grier).

Unbound Allstars

Unbound Allstars were a one-off collaboration of various hip-hop artists who recorded the track "Mumia 911" supporting the release of death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Yusuf Salman Yusuf

The three were transferred from the death row at Abu Ghraib to Baghdad Central Prison and then to Kut Prison.