A host of countries around the world still impose the ultimate punishment on the most serious criminals, death. Whats it like to be in command of the machinery of state sanctioned execution . Navalny. Today as part of the bbcs special freedom season, im going to get a rare insight from allen ault, who spent years running the Correction Facility in the southern us State Of Georgia. He organised the killing of criminals until he could stand it no more. Now hes an opponent of the Death Penalty. Why . Allen ault, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its back in the 1990s that you were the commissioner of corrections in the us State Of Georgia, and you were responsible for running the machinery of capital punishment. Is that experience still with you today . It is still here. I still have nightmares, not every night, but on occasion i still have nightmares about it. Its a very hard pill to swallow. It stays in your psyche forever. Its the most Premeditated Murder possible. The manual is about th
A host of countries around the world still impose the ultimate punishment on the most serious criminals, death. Whats it like to be in command of the machinery of state sanctioned execution . Navalny. Today as part of the bbcs special freedom season, im going to get a rare insight from allen ault, who spent years running the Correction Facility in the southern us State Of Georgia. He organised the killing of criminals until he could stand it no more. Now hes an opponent of the Death Penalty. Why . Allen ault, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its back in the 1990s that you were the commissioner of corrections in the us State Of Georgia, and you were responsible for running the machinery of capital punishment. Is that experience still with you today . It is still here. I still have nightmares, not every night, but on occasion i still have nightmares about it. Its a very hard pill to swallow. It stays in your psyche forever. Its the most Premeditated Murder possible. The manual is about th
Some very significant people have lined up, condemning what you have done, or questioning it. Im not sure. The european commissioner, peter mandelson, has questioned the wisdom of publishing the cartoons, he says, publishing them again and again pours petrol on the flames. You talk about frustration with governments, now, but your whole career, basically, sounds as if its been banging your head against a brick wall. Great to see you, how are you . How do you feel, as president , that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory . Oh, gosh, yes. We understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you, am i not right . Cheers yeah to the next 20 years how come you all have water, and i have got wine . Thats terrible so go on, youve got to take us back to the first run. We want to hear, tim, your thoughts on how it all started, and what
Some very significant people have lined up, condemning what you have done, or questioning it. Im not sure. The european commissioner, peter mandelson, has questioned the wisdom of publishing the cartoons, he says, publishing them again and again pours petrol on the flames. You talk about frustration with governments, now, but your whole career, basically, sounds as if its been banging your head against a brick wall. Great to see you, how are you . How do you feel, as president , that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory . Oh, gosh, yes. We understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you, am i not right . Cheers yeah to the next 20 years how come you all have water, and i have got wine . Thats terrible so go on, youve got to take us back to the first run. We want to hear, tim, your thoughts on how it all started, and what
Some very significant people have lined up, condemning what you have done, or questioning it. Im not sure. The european commissioner, peter mandelson, has questioned the wisdom of publishing the cartoons, he says, publishing them again and again pours petrol on the flames. You talk about frustration with governments, now, but your whole career, basically, sounds as if its been banging your head against a brick wall. Great to see you, how are you . How do you feel, as president , that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory . Oh, gosh, yes. We understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you, am i not right . Cheers yeah to the next 20 years how come you all have water, and i have got wine . Thats terrible so go on, youve got to take us back to the first run. We want to hear, tim, your thoughts on how it all started, and what