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NYT on 'At the Death House Door'

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"His Life With the Deaths That the State Carried Out," is the title of Felicia Lee's review of the documentary, "At the Death House Door," in Tuesday's New York Times.  The documentary premieres Thursday on cable channel IFC.  A lonely field of concrete crosses, engraved with dates and numbers and surrounded by weeds, is the first thing a viewer sees in the film ?At the Death House Door.? Some of the graves in that field belong to inmates who were executed by the state at the prison in Huntsville, Tex. Walking tenderly among those crosses is the Rev. Carroll Pickett, the laconic, soft-spoken prison chaplain for 15 years and witness to 95 executions. The documentary, which will be shown Thursday night on the Independent Film Channel, reveals that Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 26, 2008 (boomark / email).