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The Autobiograph of an Execution

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That's the title of a new book by David Dow, the University of Houston Law Center professor and Director of the Innocence Network at UH.  It's scheduled to be published in February 2010."Live From Death Row," is Leon Neyfakh's report in the New York Observer.Until a few months ago, Writers House lit agent Simon Lipskar knew his client David Dow merely as a gifted academic. An expert on death penalty law at the University of Houston who has practiced for almost 20 years as a lawyer in Texas representing death row inmates, Mr. Dow had written several books for academic presses and been published widely in scholarly journals when Mr. Lipskar took him on as a client. In 2005, Mr. Lipskar sold Mr. Dow?s first foray into popular writing, a book called Executed on a Technicality, to the small, Boston-based Beacon Press...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).