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Ronald Chambers

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Los Angeles Times' Houston reporter Lianne Hart has the article, "Life goes on for Texas death row inmate," in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, a sister newspaper.Chambers, now 52, has been on death row three times longer than the U.S. average of about a decade between sentencing and execution. A number of inmates have been on death row for more than 20 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In Texas, 15 of the 391 inmates on death row have awaited execution for more than 25 years; in California, 32 of the 655 condemned have been there more than 25 years. The longest-serving death row inmate in the United States is Gary Alvord, a Florida killer sentenced to death in 1974. While Chambers hasn't volunteered to die or abandon his appeals, neither has he done anything to slow the case as it wound through the courts, said his lawyer, James Volberding...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).