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Members of an affinity group meet earlier in the day to plan civil disobedience at the prison before the execution.
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A inmate transfer bus sits by to detain protesters who cross the line.
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Prison Emergency Response Team (PERT) members block the driveway to Central Prison to keep protesters away from the death house.
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Prison Emergency Response Team (PERT) members line the driveway to Central Prison.
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A Correctional Sargent addresses Prison Emergency Response Team (PERT) members before protesters arrive to the prison.
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PERT members guard the entrance to the Central Prison execution area.
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Plastic handcuffs are on hand to detain and arrest protesters.
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PERT guards look out over the prison parking lot, in anticipation of protesters attempting to stop the execution.
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PERT members guard a side entrance to the prison.
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Members of the direct action affinity group pray before approaching the police line.
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Members of the direct action affinity group pray before approaching the police line.
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Members of the affinity group cross the street towards the prison to attemp to stop the execution.
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A supporter walks with Jackie Alder as she approaches the PERT line.
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Friends lay hands on those protesters who are risking arrest by approaching the police line in the driveway.
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Police intervene to inform the protesters that they must leave the area or be arrested.
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Prison Emergency Response Team (PERT) members listen to the statements and prayers of the protesters.
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Police remove prayers from the hands of a protester in order to handcuff him.
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Mary Rider, a Catholic Worker from Garner, NC, is led away by a police officer.
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Bill Gural reads a statement and prayer, asking the PERT guards to let the protesters through to stop the execution.
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PERT members listen intently to the statement of the affinity group as Bill Gural is handcuffed.
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Media document the arrest of the protesters.
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