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To: bosquedog who wrote (1361)	12/17/2000 7:38:03 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 6089

Lest anyone forget where leadership on this front lies, this showed up in the paper today. In the Busiest Death Chamber, Duty Carries Its Own Burdens nytimes.com W's willing to joke about it, as I recall, but the guy on the front line finds it perhaps a little problematic. "Just from a Christian standpoint, you can't see one of these and not consider that maybe it's not right," said Mr. Willett, 51, talking in his office, with the blownup photographs of his children, Jacob, 19, and Jordan, 14, on the wall. . . . Now, the prison here, known as the Huntsville unit, was about to execute three men in three days. While that is not an unusual week for Huntsville, the nation's busiest death chamber, it would bring the year's total to 40, the most people legally killed by any state in one year in American history, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit research group in Washington. ... The first lethal injection in the country was performed in that room in 1982, and with the three executions last week the total number rose to 239, more than half of them in the last four years.