Convicted murderer Robert
McConnell speaks May 9, 2005, during an interview
at Nevada State
Prison in Carson City. McConnell is scheduled to be executed at 9
p.m. tonight.
(Marilyn Newton/Reno Gazette-Journal)
Nevada State Prison Warden Mike Budge in the death chamber at the
prison,
where convicted murderer Robert McConnell is scheduled to be
put to death on June 9, 2005.
(Marilyn
Newton/Reno Gazette-Journal)
The Nevada State Prison’s execution chamber
is locked behind this submarine door.
Executions are held inside the old gas chamber, although gas has not
been used since 1979.
Lethal injections are now used to execute death row inmates.
The Nevada State Prison execution chamber
as seen through the submarine door
and looking into the viewing area.
The victim