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Jim Willett

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom posts, "Looking Back on a Life as a Death House Warden," at the Texas Tribune. Jim Willett never hit anyone in his life, never even wanted to hurt anyone. But at the height of his career, the mild-mannered, white-haired man with reading glasses perched on the end of his nose was responsible for carrying out 89 executions. ?I think if I had my choice, growing up, I?d have been a farmer,? said the former warden of the state?s notoriously active death house. Willett had not intended to spend the better part of his adult life working in Texas? sprawling prison system. But the business student turned prison guard found a comfortable routine working for 30 years among his colleagues and wards in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).