In prison, San Quentin

In prison, San Quentin, which is situated not far from Sacramento, California, opened a new branch for the lethal injection. It represents a whole range of specially equipped premises. Hardware trends that are ready for their first "customer" - the killer Albert Greenwood has cost US taxpayers 853 thousand dollars.

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1. The new office is a large series of rooms and chambers for the enforcement of the death penalty.





2. Inside - a chair, similar to dental, which has already been used for 11 executions. Outside the window is a control center by injection, from which four circular holes doctors, injections, medications and getting IVs.



3. The first executions to take place in the new department has the following Wednesday. In the photo: seats for spectators. The department also has a room for the relatives of the condemned and relatives and friends of victims of the offender.



4. Lt. Sam Robinson holds the keys to a new Office for death by injection. Branch is fully prepared for the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown, which will be held September 29.



5. Lethal injection is used as a method of capital punishment in many US states, as well as the Philippines, Thailand and China



6. From the offender's relatives may look at his execution.



7. The prison administration is a new press office for execution by injection worth 853 thousand dollars.



8. The cell - the four telephone with a direct line to the governor's office, the office of the prosecutor, the Supreme Court and office protection.



9. It is a chair with straps for the body, arms and legs have been used in the old office for 11 executions.



10. Death occurs within minutes. There is a special machine to enter the drugs, but in most states prefer to manually enter the solution, believing it is more reliable.



11. The rivets on the arms for belts.



12. In December 2006, lethal injection was declared unconstitutional in the state of California. The reasoned decision of the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment - it was felt that the procedure is unnecessarily painful. For the same reasons lethal injections were banned in 2006 in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Missouri.



13. small room for a priest or a lawyer close to the camera condemned men. Last 6:00 of his life on death row offenders spend in the chamber, where they bring the last supper, if they so requested.



14. In the new department for the death penalty has a camera for a prisoner with a cot, a plastic bag, a sink and a toilet. In the chamber 31, a lattice through which a prisoner watching flat-screen TV, talking with your priest or a lawyer and can use the phone on the wall in your camera



15. The representative of the prison Lt. Sam Robinson, before a new office for death by injection



16. The guard Vince Cullen passes on death row in the men's section of San Quentin prison.



17. Death Row male section of the prison of San Quentin.



18. The guards are going to a new branch for the death penalty



19. Doors leading to the old gas chamber of San Quentin prison.



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