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All executees,
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during the execution,
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lose control
of their bodily functions.
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They urinate and defecate
in their pants, on their chair.
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This normally winds up
on the chair and on the floor
directly beneath the chair.
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This is a disgusting thing
when it occurs.
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It's a very inhumane thing
to allow a person
who's being executed,
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a human being...
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who should be afforded
the greatest dignity of all
because he is losing his life--
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It's a disgusting
and a degrading thing
to allow him to defecate...
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and, quite frankly,
piss on the floor.
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Additionally,
the urine,
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when it hits the floor--
and I think everybody knows that
urine is highly conductive--
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it's normally mopped up.
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If there's a second execution
or a third execution--
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and this sometimes occurs
when they have more than one
execution at the same time--
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the guards in the death house
now have to work and stand
on a floor...
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that's dampened and wet...
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with this
highly conductive urine.
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Fortunately, there has
never been an accident.
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But it's quite possible for
the urine to conduct electricity
and shock a guard.
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And nobody should have to
place his life in jeopardy...
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because an execution
is being conducted.
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This is much the same thing
that goes on
with the gas chambers.
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With the defective equipment
that exists,
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every time
there's a gas execution...
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it's an accident
waiting to happen.
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There is a major danger
of leakage,
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and I honestly believe
and I wish...
:25:45
that those remaining few states
that are utilizing gas...
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would do away
with the gas chamber...
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and go to lethal injection
or some other procedure...
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which wouldn't place in danger
the lives of witnesses
and prison officials...