Wallace comes at eleven o’clock every morning to give the injection.

He uses two full syringes from the white box when he thinks no one is looking.”

“Read me the dates and the exact times,” Pendelton said.

I opened the blue ledger notebook to the first page in September.

I read him the exact minute of every dose, the chemical name I had memorized from the unlabeled white box, and the fifteen-minute paralysis window I had watched with my own eyes from Raymond’s bedside.

“That’s administering medication without a valid chart,” Pendelton said.