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Killing Time: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution

Killing Time: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution


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How does it feel to defend a serial killer? To tell a young man that he will be executed in twenty minutes' time? To explain to your five-year-old son that you're late because you couldn't help someone? To realise that a death row convict whose life you hold in your hands is actually innocent? David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas, a state where 99% of execution appeals are rejected.He defends convicted murderers for the simple reason that he feels putting them to death is wrong. He knows his clients are vicious, violent monsters, but killing a murderer is homicide, and homicide, as David sees it, is morally insupportable. Yet this routine of resignation - to the fate of both his clients and his young family, whom he can feel slipping away from him by the day - is interrupted by the worst thing that could happen to him: the realization that a client is innocent. Not just undeserving of his imminent execution, like all his other clients, but actually innocent. In this gripping and hauntingly honest memoir, David confronts a bleak yet stirring scenario: to lose this fight, as he knows is nearly inevitable, will be to watch an innocent man be murdered. Written with searing immediacy, Killing Time is both a masterpiece of personal narrative, and a morally overwhelming exploration of justice, integrity, and humanity.

About the Author :
David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence. He lives in Houston, Texas.

Review :
JOHN GRISHAM: 'A riveting and compelling account of a Texas execution written and narrated by a lawyer in the thick of the last minute chaos. ' "David Dow's extraordinary memoir lifts the veil on the real world of representing defendants on death row. It will stay with me a long time." David Dow's work fills me with admiration for his courage and commitment. A book of uncompromising honesty and moral beauty. With his spare writing and fast-moving narrative, [Dow] also managed to master suspense ... KILLING TIME combines the moral philosophy and drama of death row practice with the personal reality of what judicial killing does to the people swept up in the system ...[it] left me cherishing my family, colleagues and values just that little bit more.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780434020140
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publisher Imprint: William Heinemann Ltd
  • Height: 223 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution
  • Width: 141 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0434020141
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 430 gr


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