The capital building as we were driving up to it and the other picture is the federal court building across the street from the penitentiary.
The gargoyles and the entry way into the prison. The Gargoyles had spouts and would run rain water out of their mouths... I wanted one lol!
Some of our members listening to the tour guide (the guy in the white shirt with the barcode on the front). He REALLY liked to talk... the tour took an extra hour because he liked to tell so many stories. It was awesome!
The first picture is of the first hallway we came to and the middle picture is of a cell (they were smaller than a stall I would put my horse into!) and the last picture is of different knives the tour guide had collected over his time working for the department of corrections (30+ years).
Just some razor wire and part of the wall in a section of the yard.
I believe the guide said this is the oldest section in the prison and it's green because the lighting was so dim.
The gas chamber... this was a particularly creepy section of the tour because the guide had A LOT of information about it! I don't know that I should really blog it but I'm going to anyway. He said the gas chamber was probably the worst way for someone to be executed because it was extremely painful (like mixing bleach, drain-o, and any other clear together and taking a GIANT sniff of it!). He also said up until lethal injection it was the most effective way because no one ever survived it until the electric chair, hanging and firing squads. Oh, and if you have ever had a surgery you have had one step in the lethal injection process... creepy!!
So that was the beginning of my Halloween "festivities" lol! I don't think I will need to visit any haunted houses after that little experience...
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