Life & Death Row in Texas

Texas has the highest execution rate in the United States. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has performed a total of 241 executions by lethal injection.

- Last year, 40 Death Row offenders were executed.
- Currently there are 447 offenders on Death Row in the state.
- Next week, on January 29th, Alexander Caruthers is scheduled to be executed.

Caruthers' execution will take place at the Huntsville Prison - also known as "The Walls." Walk down Death Row with Aurora photographer Andrew Lichtenstein. Meet five Death Row inmates, the execution team, members of the media, protesters, and a victim's family.

For more information visit www.soundportraits.org and listen to "Witness to an Execution."

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