COLUMBIA — The Rev. Carroll Pickett talked quietly into his tape recorder on Dec. 7, 1982. It was 4:30 a.m. and he couldn’t sleep. Midnight had come and gone, and with it passed his first execution — the nation’s first execution using lethal injection.
Documentary explains why former “death house chaplain” no longer supports the death penalty
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | 10:43 p.m. CDT;
updated 3:02 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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