we've had guards come back in to 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.

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