Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burton Abbott-a former accounting student who was charged with murder after his wife found the murder victim's purse in the Abbott cellar-was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his innocence. After a minute, Warden Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever...
...Knight over the radiotelephone: "There's a new point of law," he said insistently. "There's no time to explain. Can you stop it?" Knight picked up his other phone, spoke to his secretary, Joseph Babich. Knight overheard Babich's conversation as the secretary called the warden on a direct line...
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...Warden: No, sir, it's too late...
...lying if I said I wasn't worried. You lie there on your bunk, knowing you've got cancer in your arm, and you just think. Boy, what you think about!" Why do so many volunteer so willingly? Several prisoners have given their reasons in letters to Warden Ralph Alvis. Said one: "I took a life, and the only way I can atone for that, even in a small measure, is through something like cancer research." Another: "I am just starting on a life sentence, and it doesn't look like I'll ever be able...