From Your Friend, Carey Dean : Letters from Nebraska's Death Row.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knopp, Lisa.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"When Lisa Knopp visited Nebraskas death row with other death penalty abolitionists in 1995, she couldnt have imagined that one of the inmates she met that day would become a dear friend. For the next twenty-three years, through visits, phone calls, and letters, a remarkable, platonic friendship flourished between Knopp, an English professor, and Carey Dean Moore, whod murdered two Omaha cab drivers in 1979 and for which he was executed by lethal injection in 2018. From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraskas Death Row, tells two other stories, as well. One is that of a broken correctional system (Nebraskas prisons are overcrowded, understaffed, and underfunded, and excessive in their use of solitary confinement), and what its like to be incarcerated there, which Moore frequently spoke and wrote about. The other is the story of how a double murderer was transformed and nourished by his faith in Gods promises. Though Moore and Knopp were different types of Christians (he was a Biblical literalist and an evangelical; she is a Biblical contextualist with progressive leanings), they shared faith in Gods love, grace, mercy, and abiding companionship." --

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781666707892

1666707899

OCLC:

1549522213