She maintains, however, that if her pleas were rejected, she would go into the death chamber "speaking out for the love of God".

BBC: Tucker speaks out on prime-time TV

Garza spent his final hours a few steps away from the death chamber at Terre Haute, Indiana, reading and talking to his lawyers.

BBC: News Online

We can travel all across America and find case after case after case of men and women who have been wrongfully imprisoned, some sitting on the doorsteps of the death chamber.

CNN: Commentary: 'Jena 6' rally was about equal justice, not race

In 1992, Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years when he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.

CNN: Sunday,

In a large heart attack, the area of cell death can cover the entire thickness of the chamber's wall.

BBC: Dr Robert Judd