81. Gribble led a lengthy final statement from the death chamber. 82. He narrowly escaped the death chamber in December amid concerns that the federal death penalty is racially or geographically biased. 83. He had wanted to be fitted with a prosthesis that would allow him to walk to the death chamber. 84. He was not pleased with this detour en route to the death chamber. 85. He refused to leave his holding cell near the death chamber and guards had to use additional restraining bands to bind him to the gurney. 86. He was writing a letter in a small cell next to the death chamber when he learned of the delay, authorities said. 87. He stared into the death chamber, watching lethal drugs flow into the arm of the man who helped kill his parents. 88. However, even the official chaplain must leave well before the prisoner is led into the death chamber. 89. However, the hot line to the death chamber was in his office some distance from his official residence where he was at the time. 90. In the death chamber, he smiled and turned to his family to tell them he loved them. |