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Voice of Death Testifies for Life

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That's the title of a profile of Larry Fitzgerald, the retired TDCJ spokesman who witnessed more than 200 executions in Texas.  The profile is by Steve Mills in today's Chicago Tribune.  LINKFor eight years and 219 executions, Larry Fitzgerald was the face of the nation's busiest execution chamber, a man who watched as men and women were put to death and then, often in the face of tough questions and controversy, explained what had happened. Now he is on the other side. Retired from the Texas prison system, where he was chief spokesman based at the death chamber in Huntsville, Fitzgerald helps death penalty attorneys trying to keep their clients alive by testifying about life in the state prison system. Fitzgerald's turnabout does not mean he is a capital punishment foe; indeed, he favors the death penalty in some cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).