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Former Warden 'Haunted' by Executions

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Annmarie Timmins' coverage of yesterday's meeting of the New Hampshire Death Penalty Study Commission for the Concord Monitor, today.  "Death penalty scars prison staff, he says," is the subtitle.Two former prison wardens offered New Hampshire officials another reason to abolish the state's death penalty yesterday: Putting someone to death is irreparably traumatic for the prison staff involved."Many colleagues turned to drugs and alcohol from the pain of knowing a man had died at their hands," said Ron McAndrew, who oversaw executions in Florida and now speaks internationally against the death penalty. "And I've been haunted by the men I was asked to execute in the name of the state of Florida...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).