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Voices from death row / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Bruce, 1936- author.
- Christian, Diane, 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Texas.
- Capital punishment.
- Death row--Texas.
- Death row.
- Death row inmates--Texas--Case studies.
- Death row inmates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row--told in the words of the prisoners themselves.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Note
- Preface to the Original Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1. Voices
- 2. Killing
- 3. Access
- Time on the Row
- Jack Harry Smith, 1937-2016, Who Died on the Row
- Polunsky
- Life without Parole
- Kerry Max Cook
- Billy Hughes's Horses
- "Fantastic Dancer of the Mind"
- What Brandon Said
- Palm Trees Painted on the Walls Where the Blood Was
- Glossary of the Row
- I. Death by Texas
- 1. Killing Rooms
- 2. The Row
- 3. Time and Trivia
- 4. Death
- II. Death Row
- 1. Arriving
- Legal Matters
- Adjusting
- Family Affairs
- Gallery of Death Row
- 2. Surviving
- Community
- Three Specimen Days
- August 27, 1979
- September 11, 1979
- Friday, September 21, 1979
- Porters
- Feeling Sick and Going Crazy Too
- Finding God
- TV
- Filling Time
- 3. Dying and Killing
- The Death Penalty
- Futures
- Postscript: Our Point of View
- Coda: "Blood on the concrete, on the walls, all the murders . . .".
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438489315
- 1438489315
- OCLC:
- 1337068957
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