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In 1976 the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the
legality of capital punishment in their ruling on Gregg v. Georgia.
In the 46 years since the decision was handed down, 1,551 convicted
prisoners have been executed. The United States is the only Western
nation - and one of four advanced democracies - that regularly
applies the death penalty. While the death penalty is legal in 27
states, only 21 have the means to carry out death sentences. Of
those states, Texas has executed the most prisoners in recent
history, condemning 578 people to death since the 1976 ruling,
beginning with the death of Charlie Brooks in 1982. Texas retains
the third-largest death row population behind California and
Florida. In the summer of 2020, the Trump administration broke a
nearly 17-year stay during which the federal government did not
sanction any executions when it put 13 inmates to death over six
months. Seventeen of the 45 current federal death row inmates, the
highest proportion of any state, are currently incarcerated in
Texas. Final Words is a project that addresses the death penalty in
the United States as a violation of human rights. Consisting of a
collection of government documents relating to the 578 executed
Texas inmates, each set of pages reveals a portrait of a life
bookended by violence in which final moments are often spent
expressing words of love for family and friends, sorrow for
victims, and gratitude for life lived. The compilation stands as a
stark indictment of a system built by institutions rampant with
racism, classism, and sexism. Each entry, each story, each
utterance will challenge readers to answer the question: is there
room for humanity in the American justice complex?
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