Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Page #5

the inmate doesn't feel well--

the general welfare

of the inmate.

Then, at the end of the time,

he must take that inmate out,

strap him into

his electric chair,

his gas chamber,

strap him into

his lethal injection machine...

or put a noose

around his neck.

Most people think

of a hardened criminal

and a murderer...

as someone who is in a cell

and gonna be executed,

but these people are really

no different than somebody

that we work with every day.

The only difference is,

the inmate doesn't go home

and the guard does.

And now, at the end of

this ten or fifteen-year cycle,

they now are faced with the task

of executing this man...

with equipment

that's defective,

with equipment

that's gonna cause pain.

Even with

a good execution...

you get some burning

at the electrodes.

It's a very

distasteful thing...

for the guard who

has to unstrap the inmate

from the electric chair...

after the execution.

Normally, if we think of a belt

with holes in it and the pin

that goes through the holes,

that guard has to then

compress all the flesh

and everything on the body.

It's oozing,

because it's been cooked.

He has to get the body fluids

on his hands.

With the equipment

we designed,

all of the straps

are instant-release.

They're the same

as the safety belts in your car.

You hit a button

and the strap opens.

Another thing that we do is,

our electric chair

contains a drip pan.

All executees,

during the execution,

lose control

of their bodily functions.

They urinate and defecate

in their pants, on their chair.

This normally winds up

on the chair and on the floor

directly beneath the chair.

This is a disgusting thing

when it occurs.

It's a very inhumane thing

to allow a person

who's being executed,

a human being...

who should be afforded

the greatest dignity of all

because he is losing his life--

It's a disgusting

and a degrading thing

to allow him to defecate...

and, quite frankly,

piss on the floor.

Additionally,

the urine,

when it hits the floor--

and I think everybody knows that

urine is highly conductive--

it's normally mopped up.

If there's a second execution

or a third execution--

and this sometimes occurs

when they have more than one

execution at the same time--

the guards in the death house

now have to work and stand

on a floor...

that's dampened and wet...

with this

highly conductive urine.

Fortunately, there has

never been an accident.

But it's quite possible for

the urine to conduct electricity

and shock a guard.

And nobody should have to

place his life in jeopardy...

because an execution

is being conducted.

This is much the same thing

that goes on

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