{"id":2144,"date":"2011-05-29T23:22:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2011-05-29T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T05:22:05","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-may-29-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For May 29, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Secretive Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida takes the concept of keeping its executioner’s identity secret to a bizarre extreme. \u00a0One of the last states to use a civilian executioner, the Sunshine State is also one of the last that hoods the man. \u00a0Hired through classified ads, his name is known by only two people in the state, whose identities are also secret. \u00a0At 5 a.m. on the morning of sentence, the executioner is picked up, hooded, at a designated spot by an administrative assistant of the Department of Corrections (DOC). \u00a0The hood stays on for the drive to the prison farm at Starke, where the executioner is shown to a small room off the death chamber. \u00a0He sits there until sunrise, when he’s summoned to another small room called the “executioner’s alcove,” which is visible to the execution participants but not the witnesses. \u00a0After the condemned is strapped in, two electricians engage the circuits and a third man throws a switch activating the “executioner control panel”. \u00a0When the moment comes, the warden nods to the hooded man, who hits a switch that begins an automated sequence of voltages or starts the administration of the lethal injection drugs. \u00a0For reasons no one in the DOC can explain, this hooded man is the last to leave after sentence is carried out. \u00a0Driven to the spot at which he was picked up, he’s paid $150 in cash.<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Secretive Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Florida takes the concept of keeping its executioner’s identity secret to a bizarre extreme. \u00a0One of the last states to use a civilian executioner, the Sunshine State is also one of the last that hoods the man. \u00a0Hired through classified ads, his name is known by only two people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}