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With electrocution,
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unconsciousness takes place
in 1/240th part of a second.
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Gas chamber,
within three or four minutes.
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And with the gallows
it doesn't matter,
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because you're being dropped
almost immediately after being
brought onto the scaffold.
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None of the procedures require
that somebody lay on a gurney
for 35 minutes...
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looking at a ceiling.
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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.
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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.
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Then at least
he'd be sitting up.
:19:42
You could give him
a television, music,
some pictures on the wall...
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rather than put him
in a concrete room.
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That's not humane.
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Essentially, the states
talk with each other.
:20:05
We immediately got Illinois,
and we got Delaware.
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They had a hanging problem
that they totally were not
able to deal with.
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They had a gallows
that had been stored
for 25 or 30 years.
:20:18
They took it out,
they screwed it together
and it fell over.
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The only thing left
that was functional were
the hinges for the trap door.
:20:27
The reasoning here is that
I'd built helmets
for electric chairs,
:20:32
so I could build
lethal injection machines.
:20:34
I now built
lethal injection machines,
:20:37
so I'm now competent
to build a gallows.
:20:42
And since
I'm building gallows,
:20:45
I'm also competent
to work on gas chambers...
:20:48
because I'd done
all of the other three.
:20:51
What really makes you competent
is the fact that you have
the necessary background,
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you do the investigation,
you find out what the problem is
and you solve it.