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More Reviews of 'A Saint on Death Row'

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Freelance journalist Steve Weinberg has reviews of Thomas Cahill's A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green in the Sunday editions of the Dallas Morning News and Florida's St. Petersburg Times.  "'A Saint on Death Row' by Thomas Cahill: a case against the death penalty, is from the DMN.At first, it seems like yet another Texas case, one set in Harris County to be precise: A troubled young black male faces a murder charge despite weak evidence, appears before an all-white jury, ends up on death row and dies courtesy of the state.But the saga of Dominique Green, executed by lethal injection in Huntsville on Oct. 26, 2004, diverges from the stereotypical script. Born in 1974, Green had already been arrested three times before Oct...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).