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Media, victim’s parents watch Dodd hang
WAI.I.A WAI.I.A. Wash (AD We es
pected it to lie gruesome Dttath penalty op
portents had gone to court Monday to argue
that hanging, one of Washington state's
methods of capital punishment, was hartw
rous. i me! and unusual punishment
Hut tlie quick and clinical way the state
put to dentil convicted < tnlii killer West ley
Allan Dodd surprised the dozen merlin rep
resentatives i hosen as of fit ml witnesses
At 12:02 a m a si nwlt in front ol a se<
ond floor window in the death i handier was
raised and the :tl year-old Dodd spoke his
final words, a hard to hear message of a
last minute religious conversion
When Dodd finished at 12:04 am, the
si reen was dropped and the silhouettes of
two hangmen could lie Siam One placed the
hlai k hood over Dodd's shoulders The oth
er chewed gum is he placed the noose
around Dodd's nei k and snugged it up !«■
hind Ills left ear
At \ 2 0ri a m the i handler's stillness vs as
broken hs the i rai k of the trapdoor spring
mg open Dodd s taiiind hotly dropjH'd into
sight in a lower window
There was no notii eahle violent move
ment or tvs iti lung
7 tried to cover the
hanging with a reporter's
detachment... But when I
got back to my motel room
from the prison, I threw
up.’
John Wiley,
Associated Press correspondent
I watt hed Dodd's hands, whit h were
slightly i rossed in front of his groin, and
could see no movement.
Cornu lions Department offit nils find said
earlier that if they |>re|>an d corn-t tly tor the
nation's first hanging since ltlf>5. there
would lie very little suffering as the 7 fool
1 UK h drop would snap Dodd's net V
A minute Inter, at 12 (Mi a m Prison Su
perintendeiit Tana Wood drew the blinds
on the lower chamber Department of Cor
rc< lions spokesman Veltry Johnson pit ketl
up a white telephone and announi ed that a
piiysu ian had set the time of death at 12 tin
a m.
Tears welled tip in the eves of Dnrrell
the Vane inner attorney who had assist
ed Dodd m cutting through appeals so the
ext* utinn c ouId go quickh
lewell‘Cornell, the mother of one of the
hovs Doth) killed, patted l.ee on the bac k
Clair Ne'er, father of Dodd's two other vic -
tims, shook Lee's hand Both parents then
<|ui< kly left thee handier.
Some of the madia witnesses had been
chosen in advance, but eight were selected
by a lottery based on the size of their news
paper or station
VVe were taken to a room behind the me
dia c enter, pat searc bed and made to put all
of our valuables in brown envelopes that
were then sealed
We walked through the* hitter c old to an
adjacent brown bric k building, the state's
death c handier
I tried to cover the hanging with a report
er's detachment and wasn't sure how it
would affect me
But when 1 got hnc k to mv motel room
from the prison, I threw up
John Wilvv is llie AP s < orre.s/xiricfo/i/ in
Spokane, Wash.
PX)regon
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