Posted on 06/25/2013 10:21:17 AM PDT by South40
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison.
"I remember thinking: We're really going to do this. This is really going to happen," says Willett, who was a captain for the Texas Department of Corrections.
When the van pulled away early the next morning, it carried to a nearby funeral home the body of convicted killer Charlie Brooks, who had just become the first Texas prisoner executed since a Supreme Court ruling six years earlier allowed the death penalty to resume in the United States.
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Respectfully, that’s not what I asked for.
I’m aware of exonerations BEFORE executions.
I’m not aware of executions FOLLOWED by exonerations.
So, if you happen to have any of the latter handy, that’s what I’m looking for.
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