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Death row : the final minutes / Michelle Lyons.
Van Pelt Library HV8699.U5 L97 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyons, Michelle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death row--Texas--Huntsville.
- Death row.
- Death row inmates--Texas--Huntsville.
- Death row inmates.
- Lyons, Michelle.
- Fitzgerald, Larry, 1983-.
- Fitzgerald, Larry.
- Texas--Huntsville.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London [U.K.] : BLINK PUBLISHING, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In 12 years, Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions. First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville's Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates' lives before they were put to death by the state. Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States' most notorious criminals, including serial killers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins. Michelle supported the death penalty, before misgivings began to set in as the executions mounted. During her time in the prison system, and together with her dear friend and colleague, Larry Fitzgerald, she came to know and like some of the condemned men and women she saw die. She began to query the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and ask the question: do executions make victims of all of us? An incredibly powerful and unique look at the complex story of capital punishment, as told by those whose lives have been shaped by it, Death Row: The Final Minutes is an important take on crime and punishment at a fascinating point in America's political history."--Amazon.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover: The final minutes: my life as an execution witness in America's most infamous prison.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1911600621
- 9781911600626
- OCLC:
- 1016407782
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