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To U.S. Death Row Inmates, Today's Election is a Matter of Life or Death

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You don't have to tell Daniel Troya and the 40 other denizens of federal death row locked in shed-sized solitary cells for 23 hours a day, every day, that elections have consequences. To them, from inside the U.S. government's only death row located in Terre Haute, Indiana, Tuesday's election is quite literally a matter of life and death: If Kamala Harris wins, they live; if Donald Trump wins, they die. "He's gonna kill everyone here that he can," Troya, 41, said in an email from behind bars. "That's as easy to predict as the sun rising."
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16 death row inmates sue Mississippi

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Sixteen death row inmates in Mississippi filed suit Thursday, saying their executions should be halted because their state-appointed attorneys were untrained, inexperienced and overwhelmed.

One of those inmates, Gerald James Holland, is scheduled to be executed May 20. At 72, he is the oldest inmate on death row. Holland's execution is set to follow the May 19 execution of Paul Everette Woodward, 62.

James Craig, of Jackson, the attorney for the 16 inmates, said by the end of this year, the state could begin to resemble Texas and Florida for frequency of executions.

"This is not something we've seen in Mississippi before," he said.

Glenn Swartzfager, director of the state Office of Capital Post Conviction Counsel, agreed with the assessment of a "bumper crop of executions."

Under Mississippi law, the state must provide "competent and conscientious" counsel for death row inmates before their execution dates can be set.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in Hinds County Chancery Court alleges the state-appointed lawyers did not meet that criteria and were overwhelmed with cases. Read more>>>

Source: Clarion Ledger, May 7, 2010
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