11.   Estimates vary on how many condemned inmates in Texas and across the country have valid claims of being mentally retarded.

12.   Every time someone is scheduled to be executed in California, a team of prison psychiatrists is sent to evaluate the condemned inmate about a month before the date.

13.   For much of the time, he was isolated from other condemned inmates because he often gave prison officials information against other prisoners.

14.   Gov. George Ryan of Illinois called a temporary halt to executions two years ago after several condemned inmates were exonerated and released from prison.

15.   Last month, the governor of Missouri commuted the death sentence of a condemned inmate at the request of the pope.

16.   Lawyers for condemned inmates routinely make final-day appeals to the Supreme Court.

17.   Once rejected by the courts, a condemned inmate can turn only to the governor for clemency.

18.   Pro-death-penalty politicians have drastically curtailed the legal representation available to condemned inmates as well as the length of time between sentencing and execution.

19.   Senators paid no attention when informed that the measure needlessly denied appeal rights to condemned inmates of state prisons as well as federal.