:18:02
The doctors were satisfied.
:18:04
Now they had
to make the presentation
to the prison officials.
:18:08
The deputy commissioner
was sittin' there through
most of the meeting very bored,
:18:13
probably because
he didn't understand
what I was talking about...
:18:16
most of the time.
:18:19
But then he finally heard
something he understood.
:18:22
One of the doctors said,
"Fred designed the helmet that's
used on the electric chair...
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in the state
of North Carolina."
:18:29
At that point
the deputy commissioner said,
"Wait. Stop the meeting."
:18:34
He looked at me and says,
"You designed the helmet,
the one that they just used?"
:18:38
I says, "Yes."
He said, "Okay, that does it."
:18:41
He turned around
to the doctors and he says,
"Do the necessary paperwork...
:18:44
and see that Mr. Leuchter
gets the contract. "
:18:47
Now, what lethal injection
has to do with electrocution
is beyond me.
:18:53
Simply because I'm capable
of building an electric chair...
:18:56
doesn't mean
I'm capable of building
a lethal injection machine.
:18:59
They're two totally
different concepts.
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[ Beeping ]
With electrocution,
:19:05
unconsciousness takes place
in 1/240th part of a second.
:19:10
Gas chamber,
within three or four minutes.
:19:13
And with the gallows
it doesn't matter,
:19:15
because you're being dropped
almost immediately after being
brought onto the scaffold.
:19:21
None of the procedures require
that somebody lay on a gurney
for 35 minutes...
:19:25
looking at a ceiling.
:19:28
You have to have the man
immobile.
:19:30
He has to be unable to move,
or else he's gonna damage
his arm with the catheter.
:19:34
But you certainly can
make it more comfortable.
:19:37
You could put him in
a contoured chair like they have
in the dentist's office.
:19:40
Then at least
he'd be sitting up.
:19:42
You could give him
a television, music,
some pictures on the wall...
:19:47
rather than put him
in a concrete room.
:19:50
That's not humane.