Inmate on death row for nearly 30 years

Howard, now 61, remains incarcerated at Ely State Prison. Nevada provides him free room, board and medical care, even flying him by helicopter to University Medical Center in Las Vegas when he slipped into a coma in 1991. Howard is one of 80 male prisoners on death row at the Ely prison. Twenty-nine of them were given death sentences before 1990. Seven have been on death row longer than Howard.