undo the straps and they'd freeze because they can't touch death. they come and go quite rapidly. every couple weeks another one changes. and they just couldn't do it. >> the life of an executioner is very much a hidden world. literally shrouded in secrecy. >> filmmaker patty dillon had a film called "there will be no stay." >> the executioners i spent the most time with worked their way up from a correction officer to a major, which is when they became executioners. it was the highest promotion. it just happened to include execution. >> among the executioners patty found were craig baxley and terry bracy who carried out executions at the broad river prison in south carolina. >> the inmate less than just a