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Texas Tribune Interviews Carroll Pickett

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom conducts, "Rev. Carroll Pickett: The TT Interview."  There is video at the link. The Rev. Carroll Pickett holds the world record for witnessing the most state executions as a chaplain. He saw 95 men die by lethal injection during his career as the death house chaplain. In the years since he left the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Pickett has written a book and starred in an award-winning documentary that chronicled his work at the Walls Unit in Huntsville. He sat down with The Texas Tribune recently to talk about how he "seduced the emotions" of the condemned, why his views about the death penalty changed and how he now copes with all the death he has witnessed. And: TT: What changed your mind about the death penalty? Pickett: The main reason I was in favor of the death penalty was because my grandfather was murdered...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).