11.   Knapps was buried Friday in Tunica, down the road from the prison gates.

12.   MCI operates its own water plant just outside the prison gates.

13.   Meals come in vast tubs left by the authorities at the prison gate, with inmates dividing the food among themselves.

14.   No state or federal officer was waiting at the prison gates.

15.   Prison gates would not swing open.

16.   The doors that lock like a prison gate the instant they slam shut.

17.   With court dockets and local detention facilities crammed by senatorial inattention, public prosecutors beg for plea bargains, making revolving doors out of federal prison gates.

18.   Outside the prison gates, Barrionuevo had told a crowd of cheering supporters that although delighted with the pardon they would be seeking recognition of their innocence.

19.   Outside the prison gates, death penalty supporters and opponents gathered in clusters, talking in low voices and shivering in the cold.

20.   A handful of protesters demonstrated their opposition to capital punishment by holding a vigil outside the prison gates.