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...worth listening to the man who presides over the country's largest maximum-security prison, who actually holds the hands of the men he is ordered to execute before they die and who tells them to "get ready to see the face of Jesus." Angola prison warden Burl Cain figures his job will probably wreck his marriage eventually. "My wife, she doesn't like that she's married a killer," he says. "There are very few things I hide from, but I hide from that." Cain tries to make the system work as best he can, but he hates...
Howard has just served us four plates of the best chocolate-chip cookies I've ever eaten when Warden Burl Cain tells us that Howard killed a man and is going to die an old man in prison for it. It's flat as that, but it exposes the most intimate, relevant detail of Howard's life. I don't want to look at him, but I do, and Howard doesn't flinch. Howard's sad eyes don't change, don't feign remorse or regret, just stay sad, and his gold-plated teeth are the only thing that hints...
There are 88 men on death row, and Burl Cain has killed more people than most of them. He has set five down by lethal injection, and he has held each of their hands as they died. One man had track marks so bad they had to shoot the poison into his neck, and he kept bolting upright, so Cain had to push his shoulder down with his right hand while letting the man hold Cain's left for comfort. The table has five straps on the gurney--two leg manacles, two wristbands and one chest belt--making a horizontal...
...Both the professor and the students went into the class with different expectations, which were not met," sophomore Morgan P. Cain said. Cain, although a student in the class, was not implicated in the scandal...
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