It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas. At that rate, Mike Graczyk of The Associated Press has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men — and a few women — die. The inmates’ last words stick in his mind. Poetry. Prayers. Bible verses. Curses. One man sang “Silent Night.”…[...]

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Witness to an execution — more than 315 times