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By Steve Hall

There are new book reviews of David Dow's The Autobiography of an Execution, and John Temple's The Last Lawyer. "David Dow's memoir, 'The Autobiography of an Execution,' is a piercing work, condemning a system, disliking the condemned," is the title of Andrea Simakis' review in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.As you wander the bookstore or graze Amazon, don't let the title of David R. Dow's memoir send you running for "Star," the unauthorized Warren Beatty biography, or other fast-food nonfiction. "The Autobiography of an Execution" isn't spinach lit, and it's not the work of an earnest abolitionist. This is, instead, a stinging, honest account of what it's like to defend mostly indefensible men...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).