"There's a certain preparation I have to do to get ready. I pray, is the first thing I do. I talk to my family and my pastor and I ask for faith to carry out my duties as commissioner."
-- Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps, speaking to The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, before the execution early this evening of Paul Woodward, 62. He was sentenced to death for the rape and shooting death of 24-year-old Rhonda Crane. A second execution at the State Penitentiary in Parchman is set for tomorrow. (Reporter witnesses Woodward execution, and blogs about it.)
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