Fantasy Death Row: A Game of Luck, Hope, and Mercy

Hello all, and welcome to Fantasy Death Row! This game, which is inspired by a website of the early 2000s that now sells low-dose contraceptives for some reason, is much like Fantasy Football, but with death row inmates. The rules are simple. Each player may pick a team of up to three death row inmates who are scheduled for execution at some point in the next three months. Due to the limited number of inmates, teams are allowed to overlap with each other. Once you have picked your team, follow each inmate's case religiously. If any of your inmates receives a clemency of any kind, post about it here to gain points! If the worst happens and your inmate is put to death, you gain no points. That's the gist of it, anyway. Time for the hard part, which is still pretty easy!

Types of Clemencies
Each type of clemency works in a slightly different way. Depending on what your inmate gets, the amount of points changes.

Proven Innocent
Exactly what it says on the tin. If your inmate is proven innocent, you gain a lot more points than any other type of clemency.

Pardon
Your inmate may not have been proven innocent, but for whatever reason he's free to go and thus has averted death. Less points than innocence, but more than the rest.

Commutation
If your inmate's sentence has been commuted, he or she is not free to go, but has definitely averted death. Better than nothing.

Reprieve
This one is kind of complicated because your inmate has not averted death, only had it delayed. You gain the least amount of points for this, but you also gain them over time, which means you can rack up a pretty nice amount. Points from reprieves are earned per month and stack with any other points that you might earn later on.



Classes
When choosing your team, you may assign a class to each inmate. This is completely optional, but may benefit you if you know what you're doing.

Standard
Don't want to get involved in all the complicated stuff? Choose the Standard position for all three of your inmates. You may also use the Standard class if you choose to pick other classes.

Spoiler: Points Breakdown

Proven Innocent: 15 points
Pardon: 10 points
Commutation: 5 points
Reprieve: 1 point per month
Excecuted: 0 points

Team Captain
You're betting all your marbles on this one. You can get plenty of points here, but choose wisely because you'll lose a lot of points if he bites it. You must have a Team Captain in order to use the Offender and Defender classes.

Spoiler: Points Breakdown

Proven Innocent: 25 points
Pardon: 20 points
Commutation: 10 points
Reprieve: 5 points per month
Excecuted: -15 points

Offender
This guy's your next best bet. You won't gain as many points here, but he's also much safer than the Team Captain if you don't want to lose as many points. You may have up to two Offenders on your team.

Spoiler: Points Breakdown

Proven Innocent: 20 points
Pardon: 15 points
Commutation: 5 points
Reprieve: 1 point per month
Excecuted: -10 points

Defender
Finally, this guy is your safest bet, but don't expect much out of him. You won't earn many points, but he's good for keeping your score up if you're already ahead. You may have up to two Defenders on your team.

Spoiler: Points Breakdown

Proven Innocent: 20 points
Pardon: 5 points
Commutation: 1 point
Reprieve: 1 point per month
Excecuted: 0 points

That's it for the rules! Now, here are the inmates! The full description for each inmate can be found here. Read up on everyone to get a good idea of your chances of winning.

Spoiler: List of Pending Executions

Florida
May 29, 2013
Elmer Carroll

June 12, 2013
Texas
Elroy Chester

June 12, 2013
Florida
William Van Poyck

June 18, 2013
Oklahoma
James DeRosa

June 25, 2013
Oklahoma
Brian Davis

June 26, 2013
Texas
Kimberly McCarthy

July 10, 2013
Texas
Rigoberto Avila

July 16, 2013
Texas
John Quintanilla

July 18, 2013
Texas
Vaughn Ross

July 31, 2013
Texas
Douglas Feldman