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Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System
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At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke.
Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that the execution team could slide needles into his veins, enabling deadly chemicals to surge through his body.
The chilling Sound Portraits radio documentary from 2000, "Witness to an Execution," won a Peabody Award that year, and there is no question why. It's unnerving, eye-opening, and massively instrumental in illustrating the process, the nuances, and the anatomy of an execution — something we're far too unfamiliar with.
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Reflecting back on that case, Hammel said, "[This] kind of thing happens only in Texas. … There are no public defenders, no money, no experienced death penalty lawyers."
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Baaah!
There oughta be a law!
Yes, a dark shadow hangs over the nation's death chambers and the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of human beings in them.
There are now 900 on death row in California...gee the dark shadow will be a black moonless night when they start execution-homiciding the 900.
Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners Casts Dark Shadow Over Entire System
Image Credit: AP
At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke.
Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that the execution team could slide needles into his veins, enabling deadly chemicals to surge through his body.
The chilling Sound Portraits radio documentary from 2000, "Witness to an Execution," won a Peabody Award that year, and there is no question why. It's unnerving, eye-opening, and massively instrumental in illustrating the process, the nuances, and the anatomy of an execution — something we're far too unfamiliar with.
____________________
Reflecting back on that case, Hammel said, "[This] kind of thing happens only in Texas. … There are no public defenders, no money, no experienced death penalty lawyers."
#####
Baaah!
There oughta be a law!
Yes, a dark shadow hangs over the nation's death chambers and the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of human beings in them.
There are now 900 on death row in California...gee the dark shadow will be a black moonless night when they start execution-homiciding the 900.
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