Summary

In Chapter 10, after his sentencing, Ron was moved to death row in a maximum security prison called McAlester in Oklahoma City. Ron was brought to the prison in April of 1988. The death penalty in Oklahoma is administered via lethal injection; the narration describes the procedures used for executions. Ron’s conditions on death row at the prison were quite bad and inhumane. By the time Ron arrived, Ward and Fontenot had been imprisoned on death row there for three years while waiting for the legal appeals of their sentences to begin. Tommy Ward had struggled with maintaining his sanity while on death row, especially since he was innocent. One time, the warden falsely informed Ward that his execution date had been set. This was false, as the appeals process had not even begun yet. Tommy worried for Ron’s sanity.

Ron befriended an inmate...