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Somehow this got deleted earlier. Here's Dan Barry: DARYL Holton shaved his head clean a couple of months ago. He thought he could retain some control in this small way.

But he also wanted to save the corrections officers the trouble. "I wouldn't want them to leave with a feeling of guilt," he says. "As far as I'm concerned, it's just a job. They're just a bunch of guys trying to pay their rent."

His head needs to be shaved, and his legs, too. That is because, not long ago, he marked an "X" beside a sentence on a document handed to him at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. That sentence read: "I waive the right to have my execution carried out by lethal injection, and choose to be executed by electrocution."