Logs give glimpse of execution team's inmate interactions

 In several cases, one of an inmate's last actions before entering the death chamber is to shake the hand of the leader of his execution team.

"I thank you for all you have done for me and my family," Richard Fox says at 9:04 a.m., 69 minutes before he's pronounced dead on Feb. 12, 2003. Earlier in the morning, another guard gives Fox a wooden cross to put in his pocket during the execution.

Fox was convicted of kidnapping, strangling and stabbing an 18-year-old woman in 1989.

_ In 2004, John Glenn Roe and a guard share an onion ring from Roe's last meal. Later, a guard takes pictures of Roe and visiting family members. Roe was convicted of robbing and strangling a Columbus woman in 1984.

_ In 2004, an execution team member tells William Wickline, convicted of strangling a woman after slitting her husband's throat, that one reason he joined the team is "so things are satisfactory for an inmate during the stay here."

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