Michael Phillips
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He finally picked steak and peach cobbler.
But I felt bad about that because the prison people knew that they could
go to the grocery store and buy whatever Charlie wanted.
And they didn't do it.
And it was sort of, I thought it was an indignity they inflicted on him.
So when I went down for the execution, I went down in the afternoon.
Execution was that night.
I went out and ate fish.
Just to, how do you say?
I don't know, because of the situation.
The hardest thing about lethal injections is that they strap you down where you can't move.
And you're sitting there absolutely helpless until the drugs take effect.
First of all, the room is too small.
My recollection is there was a circular set of chairs threading out 10 feet, 20 feet in a curve.
It may have been a corner.
But it was barely room to hold the lawmen who wanted to witness the execution.
And Vanessa Sapp and three reporters.
His wife was not present.
She didn't want to be, and she didn't want the kids to see it.