About the book: year / He experienced many bad days during his legal career, but the day of the execution of Raymond Hayes in Oregon was one of the worst. Doug tried to convince himself that watching someone die by lethal injection was not like watching someone get stabbed to death or crushed by a train, but that only helped him cope with what he was seeing. This did not lessen his guilt. Deep down, he believed that Raymond Hayes would die because he screwed up..