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Letters From Death Row Offer Pen Pals a Leap of Faith Into the Unknown

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Letters From Death Row Offer Pen Pals a Leap of Faith Into the Unknown
A condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison, in San Quentin, Calif., on Mar. 13, 2019. Eric Risberg/AP
Allan Stein
Allan Stein
9/20/2022|Updated: 9/21/2022
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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.

Allan Stein
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Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.
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