:20:01
Essentially, the states
talk with each other.
:20:05
We immediately got Illinois,
and we got Delaware.
:20:09
They had a hanging problem
that they totally were not
able to deal with.
:20:13
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.
:20:21
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,
:20:55
you do the investigation,
you find out what the problem is
and you solve it.
:21:00
It's not anything different
than any competent engineer
could do.
:21:05
The difference is that
it's not a major market.
:21:10
A lot of people
are not interested...
:21:13
and are morally opposed
to working on
execution equipment.
:21:18
They think it's somehow
gonna change them.
:21:26
As you've probably guessed
by now,
:21:28
I am a proponent
of capital punishment.
:21:31
Uh, I'm certainly not
a proponent of capital torture.
:21:35
We must always remember...
:21:37
and we must never forget...
:21:39
the fact that the person
being executed
is a human being.
:21:48
One of the things
that I've had to deal with...
:21:51
is the feelings of the people
who are doing the executions.
:21:58
The guards that work
with the execution equipment...