Indicating that he has not changed his mind to give up his appeals and fight his death sentence, Daryl Mack requested his last meal on Tuesday and is scheduled to be executed tonight at the Nevada State Prison for the 1988 murder of a Reno mother of three.

And for the first time in Nevada history, the entire process will be open to the public, from the viewing of the full lethal injection procedure to reviewing of the prison's execution protocol, after the Reno Gazette-Journal sued the state Department of Corrections to open the curtains and release the document.

Historically, witnesses were not allowed to watch the medical technicians insert the intravenous lines or attach the heart-rate monitor to the inmate. The blinds were closed during that period and reopened after the EMTs and guards left the room.

But U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben ordered the corrections department on Monday to change its procedure "to allow the public to view executions of condemned inmates in the State of Nevada from the moment the condemned inmates are escorted into the execution chamber through to, and including, the time the condemned inmates are declared dead."

The corrections department also released to the newspaper a copy of its "Confidential Execution Manual -- procedures for executing the death penalty." The newspaper had filed a suit in Carson City District Court asking that the protocol be disclosed under the Nevada Public Records Act.

Daniel Wong, chief solicitor general with the Nevada Attorney General's office, which represents the corrections department, hand-delivered the execution manual, but said officials blocked out some portions that detailed "internal institutional and operational security."

Wong said he believed the department had a legal defense against the release of the protocol, but said "the director decided as long as the safety concerns were covered, he was willing to let it out."

He said the department planned to conduct a "complete review of the Confidential Execution Manual," following the change in the viewing and the release of the protocol.