Kristin Stapleford still remembers the early morning of Dec. 6, 2002 when her uncle Ernest Basden was executed at 2 a.m.
An ice storm had swept across North Carolina, making it a chilly night as she and other family members anxiously awaited Basden’s scheduled execution at Central Prison in Raleigh.
“I’ve never been claustrophobic in my life. That day, I became claustrophobic,” Stapleford said…