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Texas Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 6
Texas Death Row Prisoners On Hunger Strike
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Hunger Strikes,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty.
Location:
Texas.
Since July 19, 1992, more that 50 condemned prisoners on Texas's death row commenced a chain hunger strike. They are fasting in pairs for three days at a time, consuming only liquids, when the strike is taken over by another pair. The prisoners ...
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