Willett and a dozen or so members of his staff: husbands and fathers who coach baseball, go fishing, attend church and lead mostly ordinary lives except when it comes time to lead the condemned to a 9-byfoot room with turquoise walls, deep inside the prison, and secure them to a gurney with eight mustard-colored leather straps so that they can be injected with the drugs that will kill them. The first lethal injection in the country was performed in that room in , and with the three executions last week the total number rose to , more than half of them in the last four years.
These men do their jobs in a town and a state that ardently support the death penalty. But in the week of the three executions they shared their usually unspoken doubts, including their uneasiness with the detachment that allows them to go about their work. Kenneth Dean, 37, is the head of the tie-down team, which does exactly what the name implies.
A shy, burly man whom the other officers tease by calling him the Teddy Bear, Mr. Dean has performed that job about times. He does not like to keep count.
On Tuesday morning, he had made plans with his children, Kourtney, 7, and Kevin, 13, for the evening. Recently divorced, he gets to spend a couple hours with them on Tuesday nights. What do you do? Dean, a prison officer with the rank of major, and the other people who carry out the executions say they cope with their jobs by focusing on the routine. Dean said. The worst nightmare of the tie-down team had occurred in June when Gary Graham, 39, convicted of a robbery-murder that he maintained he did not commit, refused to leave his cell.
Dean and other members of his team had had to put on face shields and armor and forcibly remove him. Dean went in first. From all reports, Garry Miller, 33, a former bartender who was to be put to death on Tuesday for the rape and murder of 7-year-old April Marie Wilson, was not going to give them any trouble. He had told his lawyers not to file any further appeals. He said he was ready to die. There are five seats for journalists at every execution, and this reporter was there for Mr.
At p. The witnesses stared through a large, barred window into the death chamber. He had an IV in each wrist. There used to be only a towel at the head of the gurney. The warden stood just behind Mr. The prison chaplain, Jim Brazzil, was at his feet.
Miller looked straight at Marjorie Howlett, the mother of the little girl he had killed, who was crying. They had known each other before the murder. Miller said through a microphone above his head. He said a brief prayer and told the warden he was ready. The warden raised his glasses. Miller dead. After the witnesses filed out, the tie-down team re-entered the death chamber, unfastened the straps around Mr. The body was loaded into a waiting hearse and taken to the Huntsville Funeral Home.
About 15 minutes later, as part of the execution-night ritual, Mrs. Howlett was seated in the office across from the prison, answering questions from reporters. Howlett told journalists. Clop game. Close Quarter Combat. Cloud Wars. Cloud Wars Sunny Day 2. Clown Nights. Clowns in the Face. Clumsy Bird.
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She recommended that Texas' longest-serving condemned inmate be spared from the death sentence he was given in because the jury at the time was not instructed to weigh his mental illness. No inmate from Travis County, home to Austin, has been executed since That trend will likely continue. Travis County Attorney Jose Garza was elected in promising not only never to seek the death penalty, but also to review the cases of the county's five death row inmates "to ensure that there are no forensic, evidentiary, or legal issues that should cause the conviction to be called into question.
Dunham also noted that Virginia, the state second to Texas in the number of executions since , abolished its death penalty this year. The federal government executed three inmates this year. But that decline in public support nationwide is only modest, according to a mid-year poll by the Pew Research Center.
That's down 5 percentage points from in the Pew Center's polling. The death penalty remains more popular in Texas than in the nation as a whole, according to an April poll by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune. The tumbling public support tracks the decline in executions. In the five-year period ending in , Texas executed inmates. That works out to an average of just under 25 per year.
In the next five-year bloc, 98 inmates, or annual average of about 20, went to the death chamber. Thank you, your vote was recorded and will be displayed soon. Tags All tags. Add this game to your web page Share on Website.
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