Donald A. Cabana teaches criminal justice at Southern Mississippi University. He was a prison administrator at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, the Alachua County Department of Corrections in Gainesville, Florida, and the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
"After politicians have made speeches and passed laws to legalize
state executions, they're nowhere around when the Don Cabanas go to
work in the middle of the night to kill a man or woman. 'Breathe
deep, ' Cabana advises an inmate about to be gassed so that he
would die quickly. But after two executions Cabana couldn't do it
anymore, and in these searing, soul-baring pages he tells us
why."--Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., author of Dead Man Walking
"What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his
experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda
except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from
Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide
ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the
outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness
of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human,
someone like you and me."--Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer
"In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years,
recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death
penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man
Walking canon."--Kirkus Reviews
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