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Innocence Lost

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Dave Mann's report in the current issue of the Texas Observer about David Dow's The Autobiography of an Execution.  The article is subtitled, "In his new memoir, attorney David Dow offers a glimpse inside Texas? death penalty machine."  Here's the introduction to the conversation between Dow and Mann:If you?re a death row inmate in Texas, you likely will spend the final hours of your life in a small holding cell about 10 feet from the execution chamber in Huntsville, waiting to hear if your final appeals will spare you. Your lawyer will call and, with few exceptions, say the courts and the governor have denied your clemency requests, and that you have minutes left to live. David Dow has made many of these calls...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).