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Today, there are nearly 40 men whose cells are a stones throw from the execution chamber. one of them is randy haight. >> this is no way to spend your life. one thing about being in prison and being on death row, especially, because theres so much idle time, is youve got a lot of time to examine yourself, think about the things that youve done, think about the opportunities you had in life and squandered them. >> haight ended up here after he escaped from another jail and robbed and killed two p...

Indiana state prison is the only facility in the state with an execution chamber. not every inmate facing the death penalty in indiana is on death row at isp, but many of them could be put to death there. the death penalty was reinstated in indiana in 1977, nearly two dozen men are housed on isps death row. >> how are you doing? okay. let me know if you need anything. >> we get this perception that these guys are total monsters but there is a chance that every individual can, in the heat of the ...

I guess my mother was poor. we didnt have much. we had love. >> we gave cameras to inmates on death row as well. 28-year-old ben richie was here for having shot and killed a police officer. >> this aint no joke. they execute people here, and if you dont work on your case on death row theyll march your ass over there and strap you to that table and murder you. on death row our cells are a little bigger than populations, but id rather have one of them smaller cells. [ bleep ], id rather go home. >...

1977. it wasnt until 2000 that robert glen koe became the first inmate to be put to death at tennessee in 40 years. so what is it like when an inmate faces his final days? it begins and ends with a process known as death watch. >> ive been on tennessees death row 23 1/2 years. >> the execution chamber looms within walking distance from the inmates block. its also known as death watch. >> riverbend has the only execution chamber in tennessee to carry out executions. it was constructed with a deat...

>> you know its serious business, of course. everything is very clinical and methodical. and, of course, as each hour goes by, you get closer and closer. >> this is the execution chamber. as youll notice, there is an electric chair that is here and the gurney that we use for lethal injection. >> prior to 1999, anyone given the death penalty in tennessee was sentenced to die by electrocution. >> the inmates after january 1st, 1999, have a choice. if they refuse to pick, then by default it went to...

>> hours before her father was executed, lindsay decided to leave indiana and make the long drive home to florida. >> i didnt want to see him die, and so i left. i didnt want to hear anything else about it, i didnt want to see it. i was just ready to go back to my family. >> but later that evening, just three hours before he would walk into the execution chamber, wrinkles would talk to one last person outside the prison walls. he placed a phone call to "lockup" field producer susan carney. >> i ...

This is the execution chamber of the holman correctional facility. in alabama, death row inmates are executed on this gurney. the sentences are always carried out at 6:00 in the evening. >> i was 16 when the crime happened. i was 18 years old when i was sentenced to death. i was charged with capital murder, which is, you know, four more deaths in one active scheme. i was sentenced to death by the jury and judge. the jury voted ten votes to two for death. i was living with my father. me and him c...

Escort the condemned from his death cell into the execution chamber and place him on the gurney. the microphone is basically used to read the death warrant to the condemned and also to allow the condemned to make a last statement. >> prior to being arrested and going to arraignment, i didnt even know alabama had a death penalty. so when the judge told me the sentences that i faced, i didnt think he was telling the truth. from that point on, yeah, i knew i was coming to death row. i knew i was go...

Chair occurred in 1997. >> on one date in 1929, there were seven inmates executed in one night, utilizing this chair and facility. >> kentucky state penitentiary has the only death-row facility in the state. today, there are nearly 40 men whose cells are a stones throw from the execution chamber. one of them is randy haight. >> this is no way to spend your life. one thing about being in prison and being on death row, especially, because theres so much idle time, is youve got a lot of time to exa...

>> an inmate will be escorted into the cell. there is no property allowed in the cell. everything he would have had in his cell would have been confiscated. if he needs to use the phone, we will allow him to use the phone. his mail is brought to him. he has an opportunity to read it. passes it back out. last year we did one. i think the year before that we probably did three or four. this door leads us into the execution chamber. we actually have three viewing rooms. of course this is the gurney...