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There Will Be No Stay

By Patty Ann Dillon, on 1 January 2015


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There Will Be No Stay is not a documentary about the death penalty. Not in any way you’ve ever seen before, at least. It is a film about the actual men who are tasked by society with carrying out the death penalty. This is a first-hand look at executioners, the pressures they’re put under, and the unbearable toll the act of taking another’s life has on their own.

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  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Methods of Execution,



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