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A Warden Retires

By Steve Hall

Today's Austin American-Statesman carries Michael Graczyk's AP report, "After 33 years in Texas prisons, Huntsville warden done." For about 140 people in the past six years, the soft Texas drawl of Charles Thomas O'Reilly was the last voice they heard before they died.O'Reilly retired Monday from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit, where he presided over more lethal injections than any other warden. He says he leaves with no reservations, no nightmares."I don't have any intentions of changing my mind, reflecting on how could I have ever done this stuff," he said of the execution duty, which began for him in September 2004 when he took over the 1,700-inmate penitentiary in downtown Huntsville that is more than a century and a half old...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 03, 2010 (boomark / email).