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| Dean at EKU recalls the trauma of prison executions |
| By kentucky.com - Lu-Ann Farrar |
| Published: 09/28/2011 |
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During his years as commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections, Allen Ault, now the dean of the College of Justice & Safety at Eastern Kentucky University, oversaw five executions. In Newsweek, Ault explains the letter he and five former death-row wardens and directors sent to Georgia prison officials as they prepared to execute Troy Davis despite concerns about his guilt. Ault wrote and signed the letter urging Georgia to commute his sentence. "I feared not only the risk of Georgia killing an innocent man, but also the psychological toll it would exact on the prison workers who performed his execution. 'No one has the right to ask a public servant to take on a lifelong sentence of nagging doubt, and for some of us, shame and guilt,' we wrote in our letter. ... Those of us who have participated in executions often suffer something very much like posttraumatic stress." Read More. |
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