11.   Officials of the North Texas prison ministry say that putting inmates in touch with their families helps reform.

12.   Scott is a strong advocate of putting inmates to work.

13.   Since then, eight inmates have been put to death.

14.   State prison officials, following a mandate by lawmakers to put inmates to work in leg irons, will introduce kinder, gentler chain gangs come December.

15.   That should put the inmate to sleep.

16.   The purpose of media witnesses is to tell the people of California exactly how an inmate is put to death.

17.   Twenty-four inmates have been put to death since January, already a record for a single year in Texas.

18.   Prisons find new ways to put inmates to work.

19.   But doubt remained whether three states -- Alabama, Georgia and Nebraska -- can continue offering no alternative for putting inmates to death.