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WEST LIVINGSTON, Texas — When most of the 242 death row inmates living at the Allan B. Polunsky prison look out their tiny, barred windows, they see razor wire, brick buildings, and death.
But Robert Pruett, who’s scheduled to be executed in 146 days, has a different outlook on the bleak vista.
“Perspective is everything,” he told me earlier this month. “I don’t look out the window and see all that. I look out and see those trees over there or the sun or the clouds, you know, or the birds or the little spider.”
“There’s beauty in everything I experience,” he said. “I just try to stay present.”
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