Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170206:02:30:00
We've had guards come back in to undo the straps and they'd freeze, because they can't touch death. they come and go quite rapidly. every couple weeks another one changes. and they just couldn't 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 executioners. it was the highest promotion. it just happened to include execution. >> among the...