: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...
:22:01
are generally
the same guards that have
dealt with that inmate...
:22:05
for the last five,
ten, fifteen,
sometimes twenty years...
:22:08
while the man
was on Death Row.
:22:11
The warden
of the institution...
:22:14
is, in many respects,
the surrogate father...
:22:15
is, in many respects,
the surrogate father...
:22:17
of the inmate
who's being executed.
:22:21
He sees that inmate
maybe five or six times a week.
:22:24
He's concerned
if the inmate is sick, if
the inmate doesn't feel well--
:22:29
the general welfare
of the inmate.
:22:31
Then, at the end of the time,
he must take that inmate out,
:22:33
strap him into
his electric chair,
his gas chamber,
:22:37
strap him into
his lethal injection machine...
:22:39
or put a noose
around his neck.
:22:43
Most people think
of a hardened criminal
and a murderer...
:22:46
as someone who is in a cell
and gonna be executed,
:22:49
but these people are really
no different than somebody
that we work with every day.
:22:54
The only difference is,
the inmate doesn't go home
and the guard does.
:22:59
And now, at the end of
this ten or fifteen-year cycle,