“Does my future frighten me? My future consists of seven days from when I’ll have finished writing this letter.”

Ten Years and Eighty-Seven Days is the average length of time a person sentenced to death in the United States has to wait before his or her sentence is executed.

Luisa Menazzi Moretti spent many years in Texas. The state of Texas has the highest number of executions of all democratic nations of the western world. The pictures in this book are inspired by the letters and interviews that those sentenced to death have written on death row. Luisa Menazzi Moretti’s pictures are the result of their words.