ABSTRACT
Donald A. Cabana is the author of Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner (Northeastern University Press, 1996), in which he recounts his role in the executions of Edward Earl Johnson and Connie Ray Evans. Cabana’s career in corrections began with a student internship at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, the “hospital for the criminally insane,” which became the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s long-banned cinema verité documentary Titicut Follies. He went on to become warden of the Missouri State Penitentiary and of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where Johnson and Evans were killed.
