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At the Death House Door

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The Chicago Sun-Times examines the IFC documentary and the journey of Carroll Pickett in, "Filmmakers follow chaplain's journey on death penalty."  It's written by the paper's religion columnist, Cathleen Falsani.Some conversions take a lifetime.    For the Rev. Carroll "Bud" Pickett, it took 95. Pickett, a Presbyterian minister, was the death-house chaplain at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, where, from 1982 to 1995, he accompanied 95 inmates to their executions. "Even to this day, I don't understand how I got where I am," Pickett says in "At the Death House Door," a documentary that premiered this week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. "I never intended to do 95...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).