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People were executed in those final days than have been in the last six decades. state-sanctioned murder is not justice. so, what i would also like to see, though the recent action by the doj is a long and welcome overdue action, there should be an executive order to commute the sentences of those on death row to ensure fair resentencing process and we should direct doj prosecutors to no longer seek the death penalty and we need to dismantle and shut down the death row facility at terra haute. >> ayana pressley. thank you for your time. next, as u.s. troops pull out of afghanistan, there is ...

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 stone's 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 there's so much idle time, is you've got a lot of time to examine yourself, think about the things that you've done, think about the opportunities you had in ...

That's what i'm on death row for. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where i'm at, whether they execute me or i spend the rest of my life in prison. i've accepted that. >> the men who share the death row facility rarely break the rules of the castle. >> their basic behavior is directly related to them being able to say in their clemency plea that we were good guys while we were there. we didn't -- we didn't create havoc. we weren't violent, we weren't all of these things and try to obviously portray the good things that they've done while they've been incarcerated. >> i have a ...

For. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where i'm at, whether they execute me or i spend the rest of my life in prison. i've accepted that. >> the men who share the death row facility rarely break the rules of the castle. >> their basic behavior is directly related to them being able to say in their clemency plea that we were good guys while we were there. we didn't -- we didn't create havoc. we weren't violent, we weren't all of these things and try to obviously portray the good things that they've done while they've been incarcerated. >> i have a hope one day i can be out of ...

♪ and by the time they let me go ♪ ♪ i know that you will all be gone ♪ ♪ because i'm doing time >> free us. free us. free us. >> it's clear that san quentin, california's oldest prison, is decrepit and in serious need of an overhaul. after years of debate, state officials say they are planning a nearly quarter of a billion renovation of the death row facility. the plan has numerous critics who argue the expensive renovation is only a temporary solution and that the new facility would be at capacity within a year of opening. but with an appeals process that averages 20 years and abou...