11.   California is one of only a few states permitting contact visits for condemned prisoners deemed to be on good behavior.

12.   Condemned prisoners are brought to the Walls from death row in nearby Livingston just a few hours before their executions.

13.   Everyone understands that the condemned prisoners have been convicted of murder.

14.   Florida was pressured to abandon electrocution after witnesses to a series of grisly executions questioned whether the condemned prisoners were, for all practical purposes, tortured.

15.   He said he had collected blood samples from condemned prisoners at Xiaoxiguan Prison in Tianjin to find suitable donors for waiting kidney patients.

16.   Houston defense attorney Brian Wice, who has handled numerous appeals for condemned prisoners, said he doubted Bush will intervene.

17.   In the most potent criminal justice system in the country, there appears to be no one listening to claims of innocence from condemned prisoners.

18.   It was not immediately clear what will happen to Ring and the other condemned prisoners in the affected states.

19.   It was there I learned once again how anxious we are to ensure that condemned prisoners suffer their deaths as fully as possible.

20.   Its title refers to the corridor floored with lime-colored linoleum that condemned prisoners must walk to reach the electric chair at the state penitentiary at Cold Mountain.