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How I Convinced a Death-Row Murderer Not to Die

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Michael Finkel's article in the current issue of Esquire magazine.  LINK Eight years ago, Christian Longo murdered his wife and three children. On the lam, he assumed the identity of the author, a man he'd never met. Now their long, twisted relationship culminates in a final, chilling bargain. And:When Christian Longo asked if I wanted to watch him die, I told him I did. He asked me this over the phone, calling collect from inside his prison cell ? the yellow cordless passed down the line, cell to cell, hands reaching through bars ? on death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary. The reason he wanted to die, he said, was fairly simple. After half a decade spent sealed inside a white concrete box for more than twenty-one hours a day, with only other murderers as neighbors and with no hope of ever again seeing the outside world, he'd had enough...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).