21.   A federal judge on Friday stopped the execution of a condemned killer after the man told the court he did not want to die.

22.   But the state Supreme Court gave condemned killer Terry Sims, originally set for execution Tuesday morning, a week-long reprieve on Monday.

23.   But when he wants to compose a letter, he yells above the din to another condemned killer in a cubicle nearby who scrawls the message for him.

24.   Condemned killer John Hardy Rose had visits from his mother and other relatives Thursday as he waited for his execution after refusing to ask the governor for clemency.

25.   Condemned killers will still have a year after their sentence is upheld to file a second appeal.

26.   Florida was one of just four states that require condemned killers to be executed by electrocution.

27.   Florida is one of just four states across the country that requires condemned killers to be executed by electrocution.

28.   However, Chief Justice Major Harding urged lawmakers to consider offering condemned killers an alternative method of execution, such as lethal injection.

29.   Many French people were shocked Wednesday by the execution in Texas of condemned killer Odell Barnes, who continued to profess his innocence until his death.

30.   Students at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, drew hundreds of protesters to campus when they picked a condemned killer.