It's bad enough being forced to carry a piece of wood that weighed between 75 to 125 pounds for a half of a mile, but imagine that this burden was to assist a criminal sentenced to die by one of the worst forms of capital punishment. Many of us would do this for a loved one. Some of us would even do it for a stranger we thought was a "good person." Very few, if any, of us would have done this by choice for a man whose crime was so bad the authorities thought death was the only just punishment.

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