FNP 51 Page 35 story, a column, when he got back, that there was a man sitting on the front row in a bright green suit sketching out the execution, unmoved about a man dying, but he didn't call me by name. I had a number of my friends [who] sent me the clippings and said they knew who he was talking about. Ironically enough, I was headed up the country to a meeting up there, a year later to the date. We never go through a town we don't pick up newspapers. We pick up [a lot of] newspapers. My wife will read around, probably, twelve to fifteen papers a day, every single day of her life. She goes, eats her breakfast in the corner of the same restaurant, same table, every morning, by herself, and reads these papers. Well, we stopped and picked up the Atlanta Constitution, and he was rehashing that same story. Anyway, I was asked then if I believed in the electric chair, and I said, no, I'd prefer electric bleachers. Then I wrote that editorial about [how] we ought to scrap the human body, instead of electrocuting these prisoners that we've got on death row. We [have] 700 capital crimes per 100,000 people. England [had] almost 600 and something, almost the same as we were. After I wrote that, about treating the inmate as a patient, putting them to sleep, coordinating this with their medical people, and sending their body parts out to people [who] need them, British Broadcasting Company came over and interviewed me on that same theory and went back and ran it, aired it, in England, and I got calls from England. Of course, that theory never got off the ground anywhere. [There are] too many do-gooders out there, but we [have] so many people [who are] needing organs. P: What about the new system as opposed to the electric chair? Do you think that's better and more humane? G: People don't die in the electric chair. They are alive, and then they're dead. Victims die, when they're lying there bleeding to death. But I've seen two executions. One [was] this Johnson fella [who] killed a local man here, and I was a journalist-witness on that one. I've seen two executions in the electric chair, and what I see is not what these bleeding hearts describe. People do not die in the electric chair. They are alive, and then they are dead. Electricity travels at the speed of light, and that's how quick somebody ceases to exist when they are shot the juice to them. Now, which is more humane? It doesn't really matter to me because humanity shouldn't have anything to do with these cold-blooded murdering animals [who] have no mercy on someone else. P: What do we do about the mistakes that have been made in putting to death, or at least convicting, innocent people? How do we make sure that doesn't happen? G: That needs to be examined. I don't know how many of these [are] being turned loose as supposed to being freed are actually innocent, but we don't think about that when we send hundreds of thousands of our men and women overseas to fight for our freedom. These young men and women are innocent of any crime, and they're dying by the thousands on our foreign battlefields. Now, if we want a free country, we're going to have to eliminate crime, and if we kill the innocent, let God separate them.