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Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault

Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault

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Allen Ault spent years as head of death row. Why does he now oppose the death penalty?

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A host of countries around the world still impose the ultimate
punishment on the most serious criminals - death. What is it like
to be in command of the machinery of state-sanctioned execution?
As part of the BBC’s special Freedom Season, Hardtalk gets a rare
insight from 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. Now he is
an opponent of the death penalty, Stephen Sackur finds out why.

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