Living on death row / Eric Lose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lose, Eric, 1952- author.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal Justice : Recent Scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death row inmates--United States--Case studies.

Death row inmates.

Death row--United States.

Death row.

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso, Texas : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Living on Death Row represents a 13-year ethnographic study of men awaiting their execution while confined on Ohio's Death Row (DR). Lose was granted unprecedented access to conduct confidential interviews in a supermax environment. Slowly he developed a mutual trust with the inmates, and they began to open up about their crimes, lives, hopes, fears and impending executions. Reading Death Row statistics can be a blasé experience to some, upsetting to others. But nothing compares to confronting the rampant injustices, horrendous misconceptions and lies about the culture of Death Row. A few are innocent, most are guilty, but all were found guilty of capital murder - not because of their crimes - but due to poverty, mental illness, or minority status. Equally upsetting were the frank, open discussions of their homicides.

Contents:

Why and how

The baptism

James Goff: routine, rules and abject boredom

Frances Anne [Frank] Spisak: gender and sex

Jerry Hessler: violence and mental illness

Gregory Esparza: survival

Donald "Duke" Palmer: defense and salvation

Ronald Ray Post: very stupid,very lucky or very smart?

Conclusions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781593327767

1593327765

OCLC:

881887671