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Prison officials charged with carrying out executions tend to be ready but hardly eager for the new era. "I'm at peace with myself," says Missouri Warden William Armontrout. "But I wouldn't want to sit here and do a whole mess of these things." He recently had the state's gas chamber repainted, and ordered a fresh stock of cyanide pellets. Armontrout stays friendly with his 28 death-row inmates, even though he may personally execute some of them soon. "I want the fellas to know I do care about them." By contrast, in neighboring Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Out of Appeals | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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