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Jackson, Mississippi Book Event for David Dow

By Steve Hall

Sunday's Jackson Clarion-Ledger carried the review, "Lawyer offers glimpse into death row cases."  The review of David Dow's The Autobiography of an Execution, is by Gregg Mayer. On David Dow's office calendar, four dates near the end of January were circled in red. Three circles represented days that the state of Texas planned to execute death row inmates. One circle marked the day of a court hearing that was Dow's last chance to save a man's life.Dow, a law professor and lawyer in Texas, has spent a career representing death row inmates. In his book, The Autobiography Of An Execution (Twelve, $24.99), Dow tells his personal story leading up to the execution date of "Henry Quaker."Quaker was accused of murdering his wife and child...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).