Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

It is four years since the last condemned man was executed in the United States. In most states juries have continued to impose the death penalty, but an unofficial moratorium has so far saved the condemned from the chair. Meanwhile, throughout the country, the number of condemned prisoners has risen to 650. Recently the Supreme Court ruled against two of the appeals that have helped to keep them alive. Now the Court has to decide whether the death penalty is "unconstitutional". In the meantime as crimes of violence increase, new campaigns demand "that we warm up the electric chair again".
Denis Tuohy and a Man Alive film team have been allowed behind the bars in Death Row in Huntsville, Texas, to talk to three of the condemned murderers who have lived for years in the shadow of execution.

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