In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Bruce, 1936-

Contributor:

Christian, Diane, 1939-

Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies.

Series:

Documentary arts and culture.

Documentary arts and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death row--United States.

Death row.

Death row inmates--United States.

Death row inmates.

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official ""nonperiod"" between sentencing and execution. In the first section, ""Pictures,"" ninety-two photographs taken during their fieldwork for the book and documentary film Death Row illustrate life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Dept.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface. On Death Row; Part I. Pictures; 1. The Row; 2. Food; 3. In the J-23 dayroom; 4. A volleyball game in the cage; 5. Hands and mirrors; 6. Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time; 7. Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated; 8. Twelve dead men; Part II. Words; 1. Being there; 2. Killable killers; 3. Dangerous people; 4. Good time and hard time; 5. The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White; 6. Terminology; 7. Getting to J

8. Ellis's yellow line 9. Visitors; 10. Counts; 11. Recreation; 12. Porters, floor boys, building tenders; 13. Noise; 14. Night, Brandon, Emily, and George; 15. Violence; 16. Craziness and boredom; 17. All the things a man might do on the Row; 18. Sockets and glass; 19. Nowhere land; 20. Time; 21. Living space and killing space; 22. The death house; 23. Getting off the Row; 24. Why execute?; 25. Equity: Callins v. James; 26. Giving up on death; 27. Trends; 28. Records; Part III. Working; 1. Avoiding the Row; 2. An invitation; 3. Building tenders; 4. Documenting the Row; 5. Bona fides

6. "I'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" 7. Trust; 8. Why talk?; 9. Punishing Diane; 10. Testifying; 11. Screening Death Row; 12. Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer; 13. In This Timeless Time; Appendix 1. Layout of Ellis Unit inside the Fence; Appendix 2. The DR Three-Ring Binder; Appendix 3. Justice Thurgood Marshall's Dissent in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Information; Cases; A Technical Note; Index; About Death Row

Notes:

"Published ... in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807882641

080788264X

OCLC:

779828558