British correspondent Trevor McDonald goes inside one of America's most notorious maximum security correctional facilities—Indiana State Maximum Security Prison—where he comes face-to-face with twelve condemned men awaiting execution. In the first of two episodes, McDonald meets Benjamin Ritchie, who faces the death penalty for killing a policeman. Ritchie talks about the moments before his capture and how he felt on hearing the sentence. John Stephenson, who assassinated three people on the orders of a criminal gang, talks about friendships on death row--and survival.