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Restricting any movement. >> the inmate will be escorted in his cell. no property allowed. if he needs to use the phone, we allow them to use the phone. his mail is brought and he passes it back out. last year we did one. the year before that we did three or four. this door leads us into the execution chamber. we have three viewing rooms. this is a gurney. on the left is his witnesses and the news media and on the right are the victimss witnesses. he is escorted in to sit down and a team of peop...

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. >> richie recalled the last time he watched a fellow inmate leave death row for the execution chamber. >> his time...

Things, and try to obviously portray the good things that theyve done while theyve been incarcerated. >> i have a hope that one day that i can be out of prison, you know. even though that hope might be small. i know what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where im at. ive accepted whatever might come. >> what the future holds for haight is not yet certain. his case is still on appeal. but one day, he might take the same walk our "lockup" crew took when they shot at kentucky state. >> kentucky is ...

That i can be out of prison, you know. even though that hope might be small. i know what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where im at. ive accepted whatever might come. >> what the future holds for haight is not yet certain. his case is still on appeal. but one day, he might take the same walk our "lockup" crew took when they shot at kentucky state. >> kentucky is one of the states that actually still has an electric chair. and i had asked the warden, i want to make sure we get a shot of the el...

The nationwide ban against the death penalty was lifted in 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 tennes...

Going down, i probably would have fell all the way to the floor. >> we have four holding cells that are here on death watch. we have staff that work back here on 12-hour shifts when we activate this. staff are trained to work in this environment. and theyre all volunteers. >> 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 ...

By gunmen wednesday night. back to our program. the nationwide ban against the death penalty was lifted in 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. >...

Books. these include organized crimes, war crime and other serious offenses such as homicide. >> like american prisons, cz faces the problems of overcrowding. but serbia incarcerates a much smaller portion of its citizens. one out of nearly every 700 versus one out of every 130 in the united states. >> at the moment, a total of 1,200 inmates are being held here which is 2 1/2 times more than the prisons actual capacity. >> while some parts of cz have been modernized, much of the prison shows sig...

>> 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 examine yourself, think about the things that youve done, think about the opportunities you had in life and squandered them. >> haight...

During the fight with me and my father, my step mother and two step sisters were in the house. when the fight started, they ran upstairs. a friend kicked in a bathroom door. and shot the woman and cut the little girls throat. and found that little girl. when he come back downstairs he told me what had happened. we decided it make up a cover story. we tried it make it look like a robbery. the police knew right away that there was nothing going on with that. they arrested us, charged both of us wi...