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Weve had guards come back in to undo the straps and theyd freeze because they cant touch death. they come and go quite rapidly. every couple weeks another one changes. and they just couldnt do it. >> the life of an executioner is very much a hidden world. literally shrouded in secrecy. >> filmmaker patty dillon had a film called "there will be no stay." >> the executioners i spent the most time with worked their way up from a correction officer to a major, which is when they became executioners....

Undo the straps and theyd freeze because they cant touch death. they come and go quite rapidly. every couple weeks another one changes. and they just couldnt do it. >> the life of an executioner is very much a hidden world. literally shrouded in secrecy. >> filmmaker patty dillon had a film called "there will be no stay." >> the executioners i spent the most time with worked their way up from a correction officer to a major, which is when they became executioners. it was the highest promotion. i...

Weve had guards come back in to undo the straps and theyd freeze, because they cant touch death. they come and go quite rapidly. every couple weeks another one changes. and they just couldnt do it. >> the life of an executioner is very much a hidden world. literally shrouded in secrecy. >> film maker patty dillon had a documentary about executioners entitled "there will be no stay." the executioners i stayed with worked their way up from a correction officer to a major, which is when they became...

Executions at the broad river prison in south carolina. >> they made us less than just a few feet away. the duty that i had was to take the syringe, screw it in and then do the plunging. >> if the inmate does not die within a certain few minutes, then you have to actually do another set. its not the fact that i couldnt do it. i did it. its the fact that it changes you psychologically. it changes you into a different person, you know. i was not trained to do it, and it messed me up. >> taking tha...