Speech By Death Row Counselor, Dead Man Walking Author, Sister Pregean

Eight executions are scheduled this week in the United States. On execution nights, prisons go into a ritualistic mode known as an "execution protocol." The condemned are offered a last meal, the execution equipment is tested, often within sight or hearing of the prisoner, and an ambulance with its lights off waits close by the execution chamber.


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