Jonathan Carr then remembered another quadruple homicide the week before. On Dec 7, police found four teenagers shot to death in a house on North Erie Avenue. Two men were arrested."What happened to those boys who shot those kids?" Carr wondered.
They've been charged with capital murder, Otis explained.
"What's capital murder?"
Well, anyone convicted of capital murder, Otis told him, could get the death penalty.
"How's that done?"
Lethal injection.
Jonathan Carr pondered Otis' answer. Then, just before the nurse called him into the exam room, he asked:
When you're executed, "do you feel anything?"