Fantasy Death Row

Some days I imagine the world can’t get any stranger and then along comes a site like Fantasy Death Row.

The site is modeled along fantasy sports games, except with death row inmates. The idea is to pick three inmate who are on death row in the United States and scheduled to be executed within the next 2 months. Players get 50 points if their inmate is pardoned, 25 for a clemency, on down to -10 points if the prisoner is executed. And, of course, -50 points if the inmate is executed but later proven innocent.

The site even sells Fantasy Death Row t-shirts, with buyers the option of donating part of the cost of the t-shirts to either Amnesty International, which opposes capital punishment, or Texans for Equal Justice, which supports capital punishment.

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