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Rev. Carroll Pickett: The Evolution of a Death Penalty Opponent

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That's the title of an interview with Carroll Pickett on the Dallas Morning News editorial page.  LINK For 15 years, the Rev. Carroll Pickett was a witness to state-sanctioned death. As a prison chaplain in Hunstville, he presided over 95 executions. After each one, Mr. Pickett recorded his thoughts on tape. The documentary At the Death House Door chronicles his anguish as he eventually concludes that some of the men he led to death were innocent.     Dallas Morning News editorial writer Colleen McCain Nelson interviewed Mr. Pickett via e-mail this week: After each execution, you recorded a tape about what you had seen.  What purpose did that serve?     Living alone at the time that I started executions in 1982, I came home after the first, and I had to talk...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).