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All Things Considered: Witness to an Execution: A Day in the Life of a Death Row Employee [and] Witness to an Execution Transcript
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All Things Considered: Witness to an Execution: A Day in the Life of a Death Row Employee [and] Witness to an Execution Transcript
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Since the death penalty was restored in 1977, 33% of all executions in the U.S. have occurred in Texas. Narrated by Warden Jim Willett, this audio documentary describes the process of carrying out an execution using lethal injection. The men and women interviewed work at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. This website provides access to the documentary as it aired on NPR, a Morning Edition interview of Warden Willett by Bob Edwards, and a moderated discussion. By using the link to the documentary's production company, Sound Portraits Productions, one can read the transcript of this program.