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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."

Iran: Prisoner hanged in Isfahan prison

Iran Human Rights, November 11: One prisoner was hanged in the Isfahan central prison early this morning, reported the Iranian state media.

According to the Tebyan news, the man, who was not identified by name, was convicted of possession of 64 kilograms of crack.

Earlier this week 23 prisoners convicted of drug trafficking, were hanged in three different Iranian cities. Nine of the prisoners were hanged in public.

Source: Iran Human Rights, November

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