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More Reviews for Dow's Autobiography of an Execution

By Steve Hall

"'A Texas attorney and law professor chronicles his often difficult efforts to have death-row clients spared in a book that is part memoir and part historical account," is the title of Art Winslow's review in the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. You support the death penalty -- almost two-thirds of the country did, in a 20096 Gallup Poll. You may consider it retributive justice or perhaps a deterrent. You do not find racial disparities or irregularities in its application overly troubling. You believe most attorneys and judges act dispassionately and in accord with the dictates of law and the Constitution. Still, there is the Texas problem. Of the 1,194 executions in this country since 1976, Texas alone has carried out 449...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).