Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Page #4
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1999
- 91 min
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Gas chamber,
within three or four minutes.
And with the gallows
it doesn't matter,
because you're being dropped
almost immediately after being
brought onto the scaffold.
None of the procedures require
that somebody lay on a gurney
for 35 minutes...
looking at a ceiling.
You have to have the man
immobile.
He has to be unable to move,
or else he's gonna damage
his arm with the catheter.
But you certainly can
make it more comfortable.
You could put him in
a contoured chair like they have
in the dentist's office.
Then at least
he'd be sitting up.
You could give him
a television, music,
some pictures on the wall...
rather than put him
in a concrete room.
That's not humane.
Essentially, the states
talk with each other.
We immediately got Illinois,
and we got Delaware.
They had a hanging problem
that they totally were not
able to deal with.
They had a gallows
that had been stored
for 25 or 30 years.
They took it out,
they screwed it together
and it fell over.
The only thing left
that was functional were
the hinges for the trap door.
The reasoning here is that
I'd built helmets
for electric chairs,
so I could build
lethal injection machines.
I now built
lethal injection machines,
so I'm now competent
to build a gallows.
And since
I'm building gallows,
I'm also competent
to work on gas chambers...
because I'd done
all of the other three.
What really makes you competent
is the fact that you have
the necessary background,
you do the investigation,
you find out what the problem is
and you solve it.
It's not anything different
than any competent engineer
could do.
The difference is that
it's not a major market.
A lot of people
are not interested...
and are morally opposed
to working on
execution equipment.
They think it's somehow
gonna change them.
As you've probably guessed
by now,
I am a proponent
of capital punishment.
Uh, I'm certainly not
a proponent of capital torture.
We must always remember...
and we must never forget...
the fact that the person
being executed
is a human being.
One of the things
that I've had to deal with...
is the feelings of the people
who are doing the executions.
The guards that work
with the execution equipment...
are generally
the same guards that have
dealt with that inmate...
for the last five,
ten, fifteen,
sometimes twenty years...
while the man
was on Death Row.
The warden
of the institution...
is, in many respects,
the surrogate father...
is, in many respects,
the surrogate father...
of the inmate
who's being executed.
He sees that inmate
maybe five or six times a week.
He's concerned
if the inmate is sick, if
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