1.   There is an appeal process for condemned prisoners.

2.   The Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist, was an outspoken advocate of changing the law to limit the number of appeals available to condemned prisoners.

3.   And condemned prisoners who are well into the appeals process may well have little time left to live, Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods said.

4.   And it was just four years ago that Clinton signed legislation passed by a Republican Congress that dramatically curtailed the rights of condemned prisoners to appeal.

5.   Another condemned prisoner, Jerome Mallett, was asked if he had been unlucky.

6.   Another condemned prisoner, whose case was wending its way through the system, has also died.

7.   At the same time, the federal funding for death-penalty resource centers, which provide legal assistance for condemned prisoners, has been completely withdrawn.

8.   A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections said technicians, not doctors, insert the intravenous line that delivers the lethal drugs to the condemned prisoner.

9.   After replacing its electric chair with lethal injection, Georgia has carried out the executions of six condemned prisoners with what prison officials maintain was only routine difficulty.

10.   But she has never handled an appeal from a condemned prisoner, said Chris McKenna, a spokesman for Vacco.