Pleading With Electors, Toxic Taps in Texas, 30 Years on Death Row Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email An Elector Receives Thousands of Pleas to Change Her Vote New North Carolina Laws Limit Incoming Democratic Governor's Power Leak Shows Tillerson Led Bahamas-Based U.S.-Russian Oil Firm Corpus Christi Residents Cope with Tap Water Ban Report: 39 Percent of Prisoners are Unnecessarily Incarcerated Nearly 30 Years on Death Row for a Crime He Didn't Commit Since 1998, at least 20 inmates have died from heat-related causes in Texas prisons. In all, more than 70 percent of Texas prisons don’t have air conditioning. ( William Perugini / Shutterstock ) Produced by PRI and WNYC