Killing Time: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution

R. Dow, David

ISBN 10: 0099537532 / ISBN 13: 9780099537533

Verlag: Windmill Books, 2011

Beschreibung

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers wbs5196219427

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Killing Time: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution
• Verlag: Windmill Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0099537532
• ISBN-13: 9780099537533
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good
• Gewicht: 199,6 Gramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction

David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas, where 99% of appeals are rejected.He knows his clients are guilty, but he defends them because he believes murder is wrong.

Henry Quaker is a quiet man, charged with murdering his childhood sweetheart and their two children. All the evidence is against him: he's mentally unstable, his gun is missing, his son's blood was found in his car, and he'd taken out life insurance on his family immediately before their murder. But as Dow painstakingly pieces the case together, he gradually becomes convinced that Quaker - whose execution is just weeks away - is actually innocent.

This is the real story of Death Row; of corrupt lawyers, judges who are hostile to the very idea of justice and executioners who rely on inmates for moral support.Killing Time is a modern classic; both a searing and haunting memoir, and a story that will have you holding your breath until the last page.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence. He lives in Houston, Texas.