He once was praised by a psychiatrist as a nonviolent inmate who functions well in prison. Cox was sent to death row in December, after his conviction in the stabbing death of fellow prisoner Mark Dean Davis in the penitentiary's recreation yard Sept. 13, 1998. Let's reduce the more than 500 inmates on death row by executing them. They committed their crimes, were found guilty by a jury, sentenced by a judge and jury to death, now let's get on with it. Sick Briton set for US execution Tracy Housel has spent 15 years on death row for murder.
Campaigners argue that brain damage and a rare disease contributed to the crime.
Now they have learnt Housel is British, and are pressing Robin Cook to intervene Behind the ramparts and razor wire of the Georgia Diagnostic Prison 40 miles south of Atlanta, a brain-damaged, mentally ill Briton waits on death row. A last and probably hopeless appeal to the US Supreme Court is all that stands between him and the electric chair. It was also unaware that when Housel was being interrogated by police, he was being held in inhumane conditions, and repeatedly assaulted with an electric prod. Despite his long incarceration, it was only last week that the Foreign Office confirmed Housel was born and remains a British national. The disclosure of Housel's plight and British nationality will add to Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's difficulties in attempting to maintain the 'special relationship' with the United States as he travels to Washington this week to meet the new President, George W. Bush.