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| First Complete Recording of U.S. Execution Airs |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 05/14/2001 |
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The American people last week heard for the first time a complete recording of an inmate being put to death, amid a growing debate over the public's right to witness an execution. WNYC Radio, a New York-based public radio station, broadcast the full recorded execution in the electric chair of Ivon Ray Stanley, a Georgia inmate whose sentence was carried out on July 12, 1984. An encore broadcast was set for two hours later. WNYC said other public radio stations around the country were expected to carry the broadcast as well. The broadcast, which lasted a little more than 10 minutes, was preceded by a warning from the station that viewers likely to be disturbed should tune out for a half-hour. The broadcast came two weeks before Timothy McVeigh is to be executed by lethal injection on May 16 for the April 19, 1995, truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh's execution for the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil has generated public debate about whether the death penalty should remain a secretive act. 'This is a recording of the execution of Ivon Ray Stanley EF103603, July the 12th, 1984,'' said the dispassionate voice of Willis Marable, an official at the Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia, at the start of the recording. WNYC producers said that Marable watched the execution through a one-way mirror and described on the telephone what he saw to Department of Corrections officials in Atlanta. The audiotapes were made by the Department of Corrections, which has recorded 23 executions since 1983. A spokesman for the department, Scott Stallings, said the decision to record the executions was made 'in order to cover the legal and procedural bases.'' |
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