Entries tagged with “Rev. Carroll Pickett”
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,Apr 24, 2015
NEW VOICES: Effects of the Death Penalty on Those Who Carry It Out
Four retired death-row prison officials — two wardens, a chaplain, and an execution supervisor — recently described the effect that carrying out executions has had on them. Frank Thompson (pictured), who served as a warden in Oregon and Arkansas, said he believed in capital punishment until he thought “about those flaws in the back of my mind that I knew existed with capital punishment. It’s being administered against the poor; it lacks proof that it deters anything.” He trained his staff to…