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"Texas reporter's seen unrivaled number of U.S. executions"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this story now being featured at CNN.com.  I am not quite sure why CNN now thinks it is newsworthy to note who has been a witness to the most executions, but here are snippets of this (human-interest?) piece: It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas. At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men ? and a few women ? die. Graczyk, a correspondent for The Associated Press, is believed to hold a macabre record. He's almost certainly watched more executions than anyone else in the United States.... He's on the witness list for 315 of the state's 439 executions ? more than any other reporter, prison employee or chaplain ? and no records were kept for another 80...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 20, 2009 (boomark / email).