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Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault

Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault

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Why is a former head of state-sanctioned executions now an opponent of the death penalty?

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Why is a former head of state-sanctioned executions now an
opponent of the death penalty? A host of countries around the
world still impose the ultimate punishment on the most serious
criminals - death. But what is it like to be in command of the
machinery of state-sanctioned execution? In a rare insight,
Stephen Sackur speaks to Allen Ault, who spent years running the
corrections system in the southern US state of Georgia. He
organised the killing of criminals until he could stand it no
more. What changed?

(Photo: Allen Ault - Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia,
USA, on BBC Hardtalk)