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More on Carroll Pickett and 'At the Death House Door'

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John Moritz reports, "Minister decries death penalty as 'unjust'," in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.On nearly 100 occasions spanning 15 years, it fell to the Rev. Carroll Pickett to provide whatever comfort he could summon to Texas prison inmates in the hours before their death. He did not visit them on their sickbeds or after traumatic injury. Instead, he met them in the holding cell just 10 steps from the execution chamber in Huntsville and stayed by their side while they were given the drugs that would end their lives. At the outset, when Pickett walked alongside Fort Worth killer Charlie Brooks to the first-ever execution by lethal injection in 1982, the Presbyterian minister believed he would witness the proper administration of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).