![James Morgan, 55, taken in a hearing room on March 25 at the Florida Correctional Institution, near the town of Starke. He's been behind bars since he was 16, or for 38 years. His "scheduled release date" is in 2094. Photo by Amy Linn.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Linn_Dying_01-e1641245056415-300x202.png)
Dying Inside
Teenage murderer James Morgan didn’t go the electric chair. But is his life worth living? In 1987, when I first interviewed James Morgan, he was on death row in Florida, sentenced to die in the electric chair for murdering a widow in a small town