Y'all ready?
"Y'all ready?" a correctional officer asks the five reporters chosen to witness the execution.
Davis is strapped to the gurney in the death chamber and a warden reads the execution order.
Davis lifts his head and uses his last words to protest his innocence to the relatives of the murdered police officer Mark MacPhail.
He asks his own family to "keep the faith" and asks God to have mercy on the souls of the medical staff about to put him to death.
(The Independent, 23 settembre 2011)
Davis is strapped to the gurney in the death chamber and a warden reads the execution order.
Davis lifts his head and uses his last words to protest his innocence to the relatives of the murdered police officer Mark MacPhail.
He asks his own family to "keep the faith" and asks God to have mercy on the souls of the medical staff about to put him to death.
(The Independent, 23 settembre 2011)
Commenti
Quando gli è stato chiesto, durante un dibattito, se abbia mai avuto dei dubbi o se abbia perso almeno una notte di sonno pensando alla possibilità di aver mandato a morte un innocente, Perry ha risposto di no e il pubblico ha applaudito.
Un suo elettore ha scritto al New York Times: «Ci vuole comunque un bel po´ di fegato per condannare un uomo innocente».
Come se fosse una virtù.
(Alexander Stille, Repubblica, 24 settembre 2011).
Frattaglie.