Inside the Texas death chamber

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Inside the Texas death chamber

Michelle Lyons & Larry Fitzgerald, fmr. public information officers for the TX prison system talk with Chris Hayes about their experiences in the death chamber.

Inside the Texas death chamber December 12, 2014 / 08:56

Dec. 12, 2014, 7:37 PM EST

By MS NOW staff

Michelle Lyons, fmr. Spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice reads from a personal letter sent to her by an inmate whose execution she witnessed:

Letters from death row December 12, 2014 / 01:10

Michelle Lyons reads from a journal she kept during her time as a public information officer for the Texas prison system:

The smell of a death chamber December 12, 2014 / 00:35

Michelle Lyons, fmr. Spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, reads from a diary entry about a sister’s reaction to seeing her brother’s execution:

Witnessing an execution December 12, 2014 / 01:04

To read more about Larry and Michelle’s experience in the Texas prison system check out Pamela Colloff’s report in Texas Monthly.

MS NOW staff