[4] After retiring from the Texas Department of Corrections, Pickett wrote and spoke against the death penalty.
[6] The 2008 documentary At the Death House Door: No Man Should Die Alone chronicles his prison ministry.
He could not reveal his changed attitudes without jeopardizing his job and he felt a calling to continue to minister to prisoners on the last day of their lives.
"[2] In a September 2008 interview, he mentioned that his attitude change was a long process, and was in part due to the execution of several men who he believed were innocent.
[2][3] In all, Pickett "walked with 95 inmates the last 10 steps to the Death House Door" in his 15 years with the prison system.