Voices from Death Row - Couverture souple

Jackson, Bruce; Christian, Diane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438489307 ISBN 13 : 9781438489308

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2022

Synopsis

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange "living limbo" inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-person accounts of life on death row that still holds for condemned men and women today. The accessibility the authors had to Texas Death Row in 1979-to sit in the cells and listen-is unimaginable in today's closed prison environment. Today, however, conditions on Texas's Death Row are far more punishing and brutal; and, while the number of death sentences has declined, the number of sentences of life without parole has increased hugely. This second edition updates and expands on the original stories that these men told, revealing the names of those men whose stories have ended with either exoneration or death. New photographs enhance the text to give it a full picture of the brutal conditions that these prisoners experienced.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His numerous books include American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Grain Elevators; The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, Second Edition; Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir; and Voices from Death Row, Second Edition (with Diane Christian), all published by SUNY Press. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

Diane Christian is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is a poet (Wide-Ons, Occasion Poems) and a filmmaker.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438489307
• ISBN 13: 9781438489308
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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