Looking Back on a Life as a Death House Warden
Mar 28, 2011 · Jim Willett is the director of the Texas Prison Museum and was a warden at the Walls Unit who oversaw 89 executions by lethal injection. He sits in a replica cell within the museum.
James Willett - Crime Museum
Home » Crime Library » Famous Prisons & Incarceration » James Willett “Presided over almost 100 executions” would stand out on any résumé, but in the case of Jim Willett, it would be the sole characterizing feature of his career.
Execution chamber warden shares worst memories - WOAI
Nov 7, 2017 · News 4 interviewed retired death chamber warden, Jim Willett about his staff and his work at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. During the 3 year period Willett was the senior warden at the...
Jim Willett - Bearing Witnesses
Mar 28, 2011 · Jim Willett is a retired Warden with 30 years of experience with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison system. He currently serves as the contributing researcher and TDCJ prison system expert at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas..
Looking Back on Life as a Death House Warden - The New York Times
Mar 27, 2011 · HUNTSVILLE — Jim Willett has never hit anyone in his life, never even wanted to hurt anyone. But at the height of his career, this mild-mannered, white-haired man with reading glasses perched on...
What ever happened to … Walls unit warden Jim Willett
Feb 24, 2013 · The American-Statesman first brought you the story of Jim Willett in 2001 as he was about to retire as warden of the unit known as the Walls in Huntsville, where he presided over 89 executions....
In the Busiest Death Chamber, Duty Carries Its Own Burdens
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Dec. 10 — Jim Willett, the warden of the prison here, awakened a little before 5 a.m. on Tuesday in his home, which his wife, Janice, had decorated for Christmas. He had not been looking forward to the day.
Interview with Jim Willet | After Violence Archive
Jim Willett is a retired prison warden of the Walls Unit who worked in the Texas prison system in various capacities for forty years, until his retirement in 2001.
Warden: Texas Prison Life and Death from the Inside Out
May 1, 2005 · The story of the author's thirty-year career in Texas prisons, from his first night as a shotgun-wielding guard to the last man he accompanied to the death chamber, Willett remembers not just the big events of his career but the small ones that give prison life its texture.
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Witness to an Execution - StoryCorps
Oct 20, 2000 · Witness to an Execution tells the stories of the men and women involved with the execution of death row inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Narrated by Warden Jim Willett, who oversees all Texas executions, Witness to an Execution documents, in minute-by-minute detail, the process of carrying out an execution by lethal injection.