21.   Senior Katie Finn wanted to know what to say to people who believe condemned inmates are only getting what they deserve.

22.   The final meal is typically the last formal request that condemned inmates are granted before being strapped to the lethal-injection gurney.

23.   The officer notes when the condemned inmate takes a shower and puts on clean clothes.

24.   There was also testimony from eyewitnesses to executions including news reporters, physicians, clergy, and family members of condemned inmates and the victims of their crimes.

25.   Those three cases will likely be sent back to the state courts, and the burden to prove retardation will be on the condemned inmates.

26.   To be deemed competent for execution a condemned inmate must either understand that he is going to be put to death or the reasons for the execution.

27.   Typically such a request is made by a condemned inmate.

28.   Under a proposal awaiting formal approval, assorted Plexiglas booths would be constructed for condemned inmates at San Quentin State Prison.

29.   A condemned inmate whose picture is part of a Benetton campaign against capital punishment received a stay of execution Wednesday.

30.   A federal judge on Thursday said he was prepared to declare the federal death penalty unconstitutional on the grounds that too many condemned inmates turn out to be innocent.