Ruben Cardenas, 47, the Mexican national, died by lethal injection at the
Texas death chamber in Huntsville at 10:26 p.m. local time, Jason Clark, deputy chief of staff for the state Department of Criminal Justice, said by phone.
This
crude death chamber is inhabited by a literal wanker, a mechanical fibre - glass arm, whose continual motion suggest futility, boredom, sex and death.»
The museum, ironically, is not far from the state prison system headquarters and its five facilities housing 9,000 prisoners, including the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville and the state's
death chamber, the most active in the country with 537 executions since 2982.
The complex is home to
the death chamber where all three prisoners executed by the federal government since 1988 have died by lethal injection, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
«If the governor is so hot on this, he ought to go down to
the death chamber and do it himself.
One detail of his years working in
the death chamber stuck in his mind: the cause of mortality given on the inmates» death certificates was always the same: «homicide».
Typically, the group consists of a «tie - down team» who escort the prisoner from his cell to
the death chamber and then strap him to the gurney; medically trained personnel who set the intravenous lines; and those, like Bracey and Baxley, who sit on the other side of a glass wall and press the buttons to inject the lethal drugs into the prisoner once the team leader gives the order.
when inmates go to sleep, or to
the death chamber, no praying out loud allowed?
Cast the mote from your eye and stop allowing
the death chambers like Hitler was doing.
It was
a death chamber before.
Because so little was understood about their care, and because they were sold in little plastic trays that basically amounted to
a death chamber for them, instances of salmonella transmission occured.
The air is a giant
death chamber, and the same families are behind it as were behind the Nazi death chambers.
But numerous other states have made moves to obtain lethal injection drugs and revive
their death chambers.