Charles Thomas O'Reilly, warden of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit, retired on Monday after having presided over out about 140 exexutions.
O'Reilly, who turns 60 on Wednesday, says he leaves with no reservations and no nightmares. He began execution duty in September of 2004, but has been with the Texas prison agency for over 33 years.
Although he didn't keep an exact tally of the number of inmates whose executions he oversaw, he estimates it is around 140. That accounts for about a third of all the executions in Texas since it resumed executions in 1982.
If I'd watched 140 people die, regardless of what they had done, and had 'no reservations' about it, I'd worry I was a sociopath.
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