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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 24, 2010 22:38:06 GMT -6
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Post by VA Justice on Apr 26, 2010 21:02:32 GMT -6
Basically, the room was in the same layout as it was during the electrocution era, with only a railing seperating the witnesses from the gurney. The walls of the room were red brick at that time. The divider between witness and inmate came only after the execution of Candyman O'Bryan in 1984, where the shunt blew out and sprayed the lethal chemicals towards the witnesses.
The executioner was Jim Estelle, Director of the Texas DCJS. He tried to put all three chemicals together at once, assuming that would get the job done more quickly. In fact, the chemicals interacted and coagulated, clogging the line. A DCJS physician standing aside in the room (but not participating, fearing AMA retribution for violation of the Socratic Oath), said, "if you had asked me, I would have told you that was going to happen". Estelle nearly went after him in the back room right there.
I have that from a first hand account of someone "who was there" at the execution.
Time Magazine had a photo of Brooks still lying on the gurney post-execution in their issue the following week.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 26, 2010 21:17:48 GMT -6
Time Magazine had a photo of Brooks still lying on the gurney post-execution in their issue the following week. If you could find that photo, I would be forever grateful.
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Post by VA Justice on Apr 27, 2010 23:09:57 GMT -6
Just go to a decent library with Time Magazine archives. It's in the issue around December 15, 1982.
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