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Michael Graczyk

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KDAF-TV has a brief profile of AP reporter Michael Graczyk, "Texas Reporter Witnesses Hundreds of Executions."A Fort Worth killer is set to become the 424th inmate to be put to death in Texas. When he dies, Mike Graczyk will be there, just inches away.    It is the job of the Associated Press reporter to cover capital punishment in Texas, and that translates into busy days on death row. Graczyk estimates that he has witnessed more than 300 executions in his 26 years covering lethal injection in the state.      Graczyk may have witnessed more executions than anyone in the country because Texas sets the pace when it comes to lethal injection. "It's just part of my job. It just comes with the territory," says the reporter...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).