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In Texas, prisoner burials are a gentle touch in punitive system

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Kenneth Wayne Davis died at 54 as not so much a man but a number: Inmate No. 327320.

Davis was charged, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated for capital murder by the state of Texas after taking someone’s life on Nov. 19, 1977. But when he died in November 2011, Texas seemed....

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