Uncensored from Texas Death Row is a series of articles originally started by Paul Colella that gives readers an impression of life on Death Row

Death row

Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...

 in Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 through the eyes of the inmates.

Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright (murderer)

Richard Michael "Rich" Cartwright was a Death Row inmate and activist who was executed by the state of Texas for the stabbing and shooting of 37 year old Nick Moraida during a robbery in Corpus Christi on August 1, 1996....

 took over when Colella was released from Death Row on August 12, 2003, after having had his sentenced reduced to 20 years imprisonment. After Cartwright's execution on May 19, 2005, Clinton Lee Young

Clinton Lee Young

Clinton Lee Young is a death row inmate and convicted murderer, currently awaiting an appeal in the state of Texas. Young is facing the death penalty on premise of the Law of Parties, which cites that participation in a murder is grounds for capital punishment.Young is known for his Uncensored...

 took over.

One notable contributor is Hank Skinner

Hank Skinner

Henry Watkins "Hank" Skinner was convicted of bludgeoning to death his live-in girlfriend, Twila Busby, and stabbing to death her two adult sons, Randy Busby and Elwin Caler. The murders occurred on December 31, 1993 at 801 East Campbell Avenue in Pampa, Texas...

, the human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

 activist convicted of the murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

 of his girlfriend Twila Busby and her children in 1993. , Skinner is still on Death Row. His case is still pending review.

Many of Richard Cartwright's "Uncensored" articles can be found, curiously enough, at a Pro Death Penalty website where it is apparent many people thought fondly of Richard.

External links

• Paul Colella - New Beginnings. deathrow.at. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
• Richard Cartwright. Archived from the original on 2007-01-28. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
• Uncensored from Texas Death Row. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
• Offenders No Longer on Death Row. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is a department of the government of the state of Texas. The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails and private correctional facilities, funding and certain...
  
  . Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
• Richard Cartwright - Uncensored from Death Row. Archived from the original on 2007-02-01. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.