On Death Row in Texas, a last request: A prayer and 'human contact'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "Everything surrounding the execution process and the Texas execution protocol is based on safety and security," said Jeremy Desel, communications director for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
44% : "It's the secrecy and the distance and the separation that has allowed the death penalty to go on all this time," she said.
41% : These contradictory impulses both have a strong influence in Texas, said Kent Ryan Kerley, professor and chair of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Texas at Arlington.
40% : Ramirez evaded law enforcement for three years, fleeing to Mexico and starting a family there.

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