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Death and the Chaplain

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That's the title of a Q and A with Carroll Pickett, the retired TDCJ Chaplain featured in the documentary At the Death House Door.  The interview was conducted by Kiko Martinez.  LINK The year after you retired, rules were changed at the prison to allow close friends and family of the victim to witness the execution. What were your thoughts on this new policy?   Before they started legally, there were many times when I had the family of the inmate that was going to be executed in one place and the family of the victim in another place. We would have to sneak one family in one way and the other family another. I think if they?re looking for closure, they?re not going to get it. Watching somebody get killed isn?t pleasant...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).