21.   Lungren said the ruling could allow lawyers of condemned prisoners to further delay executions with procedural roadblocks.

22.   Many of the executed become organ donors, but whether most condemned prisoners donate their organs willingly is a matter of debate.

23.   Nobles tried to become the first condemned prisoner to donate his organs to strangers.

24.   One classic way for a condemned prisoner to assert himself is through the last meal request.

25.   Reportedly, condemned prisoners played with yo-yos to relieve the considerable stress of walking to the guillotine.

26.   Robert McGlasson is a competent attorney who is handling the appeal of a condemned prisoner named Calvin Burdine.

27.   Security has always been tight on death row, officially the Capital Sentencing Unit, on the theory that condemned prisoners are more dangerous and desperate than other inmates.

28.   Surgeons proposed that condemned prisoners be persuaded to try to demonstrate post-beheading consciousness by some agreed-upon facial signal.

29.   The antiterrorism bills contain provisions that would accelerate the executions of condemned prisoners, at great risk to their fundamental rights.

30.   The court has upheld the death sentences of eight defendants, including one condemned prisoner who has since died.