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High Cost of Executions

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of an OpEd by Chuck Arnold in today's Lompoc Record of California. He's the pastor at Valley of the Flowers United Church of Christ. In the late 1950s, I was working as a correctional officer (guard) at San Quentin prison. My duty that day was to patrol the big yard, a large area surrounded on four sides by the cell blocks and the dining facility. The desk sergeant called me in and said they were one short of the 13 witnesses necessary to carry out the execution that was scheduled that morning. I was chosen to be the 13th witness. At that time, the state of California was still using the gas chamber. As I remember, the gas chamber was an octagon painted institution green, with glass windows on seven sides, approximately 4 feet from the floor, extending 4 feet to the conical metal top...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2010 (boomark / email).

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