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Danigran · #1 10-21-2009, 06:17 AM

You know... I can't believe this! I mean I CAN believe it, but with all the news lately of an innocent man executed why on earth would he make jokes??

Uncomfortable jokes about executing prisoners by former Texas Death House warden

Joking about executions was more than some students and college professors were ready to hear, especially when the stand up comic was in charge of executing so many Texas prisoners.
The warden who oversaw the Walls Unit in Huntsville, giving the order to go ahead with 89 executions, joked about sending inmates to their death as he spoke to a University of Houston Downtown lecture Tuesday night, but some students and staff expressed discomfort as they talked about it outside the event.
Jim Willett had copies of his two books for sale as he addressed the UHD Criminal Justice Lecture Series.
Now head of the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, he never focused on one single theme or message as he addressed a room full of around 80 students, faculty and visitors. He began telling several stories and then stopped, midway, and told the audience he needed to back up or he had forgotten details.

http://www.examiner.com/x-6928-Houston-Page-One-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Uncomfortable-jokes-about-executing-prisoners-by-former-Texas-Death-House-warden

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sweetnina · #2 10-21-2009, 07:17 AM

No words.

Halo666 · #3 10-21-2009, 11:07 AM

Just pathetic.but are you really surprised?I'm not,they are lower level than bugs.

Joy · #4 10-21-2009, 11:19 AM

No words here either.......

Eternal Sunshine · #5 10-21-2009, 11:33 AM

Reading this left me speechless.

Cloudy · #6 10-21-2009, 11:33 AM

And they call the men on the row "monster"????

This man should never have one good night of sleep, ever again. St Peter's gate......

Stoneite · #7 10-22-2009, 12:19 AM

Reading this made me feel sick. Thankfully his audience seem to have been equally sickened.

susy dahmer · #8 10-22-2009, 01:38 PM

no words

mammastalkin · #9 10-22-2009, 04:19 PM

It's not enough that we have to worry about our friends and loved ones being executed. Now apparantly we have to consider the thought that they are subjected to the lowest form of gallows humor--just prior to their death. And he seemed proud of it.

Vssjayden · #10 11-20-2009, 12:34 PM

The only thing that gives me relief from crap like this is one day this man will meet his maker and one day he will have to answer why he was part of bloodshed. He is just as guilty as the man laying on the gurney. Its legalized murder and it doesn't go unpunished in the end. Like one inmate stated. Im not afraid to die. Im afraid of God.
In the end thats the man who matters.

littlehoov · #11 11-20-2009, 01:33 PM

that took some reading . sick!!!

**lisainengland** · #12 11-22-2009, 05:40 AM

I dont think words can describe this man !!!!

Mayone · #13 11-29-2009, 06:23 AM

Makes me feel sick.

MarkAlan · #14 12-13-2009, 02:40 PM

That article has disturbed me right to my core....

JJS811 · #15 01-05-2010, 03:01 AM

No words - sickening!

mollymop · #16 01-05-2010, 11:01 AM

How can any one joke about taking the life of another sick!!!!!

Curegirl80 · #17 01-09-2010, 07:39 PM

I am speechless along with everyone else.

cjsp09 · #18 01-30-2010, 08:00 AM

heartless and gutless. he is pathetic.......there are some words out there that are used to describe people like him but i wont use them here!!!

Joolz · #19 01-30-2010, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danigran

You know... I can't believe this! I mean I CAN believe it, but with all the news lately of an innocent man executed why on earth would he make jokes??

Uncomfortable jokes about executing prisoners by former Texas Death House warden

Joking about executions was more than some students and college professors were ready to hear, especially when the stand up comic was in charge of executing so many Texas prisoners.
The warden who oversaw the Walls Unit in Huntsville, giving the order to go ahead with 89 executions, joked about sending inmates to their death as he spoke to a University of Houston Downtown lecture Tuesday night, but some students and staff expressed discomfort as they talked about it outside the event.
Jim Willett had copies of his two books for sale as he addressed the UHD Criminal Justice Lecture Series.
Now head of the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, he never focused on one single theme or message as he addressed a room full of around 80 students, faculty and visitors. He began telling several stories and then stopped, midway, and told the audience he needed to back up or he had forgotten details.

http://www.examiner.com/x-6928-Houston-Page-One-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Uncomfortable-jokes-about-executing-prisoners-by-former-Texas-Death-House-warden

Post edited to comply with copyright rules. Rachel (admin)

I read this link, and Im disgusted, I am against death penalty for ages but to be honest, I never considered that they wud be toyed with and humiliated prior to death - I thought there were rules in the sick game of lets murder to show murdering is wrong.

DaveMoff · #20 01-30-2010, 08:18 PM

We are often led to wonder what sort of person can without apparent conscience preside over the deliberate premeditated killing of a human being. Jim Willett has provided us with more than a little insight.

charlotte98 · #21 01-30-2010, 08:35 PM

My David could have gotten the death penalty for his crime.
This man's 'jokes' make me literally sick to my stomach.
just no words to say how sad, and pissed off it makes me.