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Death and Texas

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Dahlia Lithwick's reivew of David Dow's Autobiography of an Execution, in today's New York Times.  LINKToward the beginning of ?The Auto­biography of an Execution,? David Dow relaxes after a speech with the celebrated death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean. (?It was the first time I went drinking with a nun.?) Prejean tells Dow, who has represented more than 100 death row inmates over 20 years, that ?support for the death penalty is a mile wide, but just an inch deep.? Dow responds: ?Well, Sister, I believe you can drown in an inch of water.? This book is Dow?s effort to drain the puddle.Statistics from the Death Penalty Information Center show that the death penalty in America is dying. In 2009, the number of death sentences dropped for the seventh consecutive year; it?s now the lowest since the Supreme Court re­instated the death penalty in 1976...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 12, 2010 (boomark / email).