Death Row

At the present time there are just under 3,300 prisoners waiting for execution in the death rows of the United States.
Last year (2009) 52 executions were carried out, almost half of them in Texas.
David Dow is a professor of law at the University of Houston and director of the Texas Defender Service.
Dow says, “The system is lawless. A racist, classist, unprincipled regime, a regime where white skin is valued far more highly than dark, where prosecutors hide evidence and policemen routinely lie.”
Over the past five years 24 men and women have been released from America’s death rows after lawyers proved their innocence.