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Making a date with death

Witnessing an execution

Making a date with death

Making a date with death

Roy Willard Blankenship


Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison, Jackson Ga. Thursday, June 23, 2011, 8:16 p.m.    We were almost there, I thought. At 8:16 p.m., some 10 minutes after we had stopped at the open gate, the driver’s radio crackled to life. He responded with a “10-4,” and we began rolling again, this time past a basketball court and a volleyball court on our left. After we passed the courts, the driver turned left across the prison ...

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