JESSUP, Md. (AP) — Maryland's death row inmates are turning into computer junkies.
The 13 inmates all have access to computers, which some use up to five hours a day to research the law in hopes of saving their own lives. The computers have no Internet connections, but the inmates have legal reference software at their disposal.
"This is all we do is sit here and pick apart our cases," said Steven H. Oken, a condemned murderer. "This is our life."
The computers have no Internet connections, but the inmates have legal reference software at their disposal.
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State officials say the computer programs are no different than the law books that death row inmates in Maryland have been free to study since 1773.