1.   Attorneys for condemned killer Alexander Williams and the European Union are expected to file documents with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging his execution planned for next Wednesday.

2.   Both prisons share a large wooded compound with the Ellis Unit, located about three miles away, where seven condemned killers broke out of death row last Thanksgiving.

3.   A condemned killer is perfectly free to hang on as long as he can by pursuing redundant appeals and conjuring up far-fetched legal rationales for postponing the inevitable.

4.   But he said it was highly unusual for a condemned killer to offer such a detailed prescription, especially with execution imminent.

5.   Condemned killers like Sam may not go to heaven, but they do turn up at the Oscar show.

6.   Condemned killer William Bonin was dealt a series of legal defeats that move him closer to becoming the first inmate in California to die by lethal injection.

7.   Condemned killers who beg to be executed often find it difficult to get their wish because so many do-gooders are scrambling to shield them from the lethal needle.

8.   Critics said the rule will make it more difficult for condemned killers to seek a reprieve or commutation of their sentences.

9.   For a time, he was confined with condemned killers.

10.   Gurule, of Corpus Christi, was among seven condemned killers who tried to break out of the prison late Thanksgiving night.