Gerges Scott is currently the Senior Vice-President at Agenda Global, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he leads the energy unit that helps industry clients overcome challenges related to regulatory, government, media and community support. See the link below for his full bio:
https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/gerges-scott/
From 1999-2002, Mr. Scott was the Director of Communications for the New Mexico Department of Corrections (Santa Fe, New Mexico). Within that role, he was responsible for external/internal communications and handled a series of crisis communications situations for the Corrections Secretary, including the Santa Rosa prison riot and gang violence. As part of this role, Mr. Scott handled the communications for the only execution to take place in New Mexico during the contemporary era, when Terry Clark was executed in 2001. Mr. Clark had turned down his final appeals and went to the death chamber as a "volunteer." At the time of Terry Clark's execution, it had been 41 years since an execution had taken place in New Mexico. The last execution before the Clark execution had been in 1960 and the mode of execution was gassing. The Clark execution was to be the first execution in New Mexico via lethal injection (and as it turned out, the last one as well, since New Mexico did not execute anyone after Mr. Clark and abolished the death penalty in 2009). Since the New Mexico DOC had not executed anyone via lethal injection, as Terry Clark's execution was being scheduled and planned, Mr. Gerges Scott and the warden of the New Mexico death row went to Texas and witnessed one of their lethal injection executions in order to learn the protocol for a lethal injection execution.
On February 24, 2023, I sat down with Gerges Scott at his office in Albuquerque, New Mexico to interview him about his experiences in 2001, when he witnessed the executions of both the death row prisoner in Texas and Terry Clark in New Mexico. The link below is an article that was written at the time, which focused on the process whereby Mr. Scott and the warden of New Mexico's death row traveled to Texas to learn "The Art of Execution."
The Art of Execution- Texas Style
In a similar article, titled "Texas is often viewed as a role model for executions," Gerges Scott is quoted for his view of the instrumental role that Texas played in the preparation of New Mexico Department of Corrections for the only execution they carried out in the modern era of the death penalty. A link to this article follows:
Texas is Often Viewed as a Role Model for Executions