Coming of Age on Death Row
Gautam Narula is a teen when he bonds with a unique friend on death row.
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Gautam: "Me (age 15), Troy, and my sister, taken on November 9, 2008, during my second visit about six weeks after I first wrote him a letter. It was the only photo with him we ever got, and was taken by another inmate with a Polaroid."
Gautam at Troy's grave in Savannah, GA, taken on September 21, 2012 (exactly one year after the execution).
The envelope that contained Troy's final letter, which Gautam received on September 22, 2011, the day after his execution.
Troy's grave.
Troy's trial, taken in Savannah in August 1991.
Gautam at Troy's grave on September 21, 2015, the day Remain Free was published and the four year anniversary of Troy's execution.