The story is without a happy ending for most prisoners sitting on death row in the United States. But the fact remains that most of the 2,450 men and women awaiting execution committed brutal crimes.
Some feel remorse, while others do not. The victims’ families demand closure, but the gears of justice grind slowly. The months drag on into years and even decades before all appeals are exhausted.
Until then, life continues on death row, though the condemned men and women facing capital punishment yearn for human contact.
Ines Aubert founded the Connectdeathrow pen pal project seven years ago so that people could write to death row inmates. (Courtesy of Ines Aubert)
“There is a human need to have friendships and feel close to the outside,” said a prisoner nicknamed Dog. He’s been on Arizona’s death row for the past 19 years….