Death row inmates’ surprising views on death penalty vote: ‘If you are going to execute me, execute me’

California voters face two capital punishment choices on the November ballot: End the death penalty or speed the way for execution. Tuilaepa, condemned because he killed a man in 1986 who knocked down his partner during a bar robbery, said he was certain most welcome an end to the threat of death, “they just don’t say it.” Death row inmate Paul Palalaua Tuilaepa, 51, outside at San Quentin State Prison. “Death row is complicated,” said state prison spokeswoman Terry Thornton, who has been fielding questions since 1999 about the Western world’s largest assemblage of men sentenced to die for their crimes. “Me, I don’t know if I can handle a bunkie after 20 years of living by myself.” Death row inmate Clifton Perry in East Block at San Quentin State Prison. “But if you are going to let me go, let me go.” Death row experts said states that have repealed the death penalty have successfully absorbed the condemned into their general populations, though in Connecticut, two killers had to be sent to Pennsylvania to ensure their safety.