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.
"David Dow's extraordinary memoir lifts the veil on the real world
of representing defendants on death row. It will stay with me a
long time."
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"Defending the innocent is easy. David Dow fights for the
questionable. He is tormented, but relentless, and takes us inside
his struggle with candor and insight, shudders and all."
-- Columbine"
"For a lot of good reasons, and some that are not so good,
executions in the U.S. are carried out in private. The voters, the
vast majority of whom support executions, are not allowed to see
them. The Autobiography of an Execution is a riveting and
compelling account of a Texas execution written and narrated by a
lawyer in the thick of the last minute chaos. It should be read by
all those who support state sponsored killing."
-- The Innocent Man"
""David Dow's extraordinary memoir lifts the veil on the real world
of representing defendants on death row. It will stay with me a
long time"."
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"In an argument against capital punishment, Dow's capable memoir
partially gathers its steam from the emotional toll on all parties
involved, especially the overworked legal aid lawyers and their
desperate clients. The author, the litigation director of the Texas
Defender Service and a professor at the University of Houston Law
Center, respects the notion of attorney-client privilege in this
handful of real-life legal outcomes, some of them quite tragic,
while acknowledging executions are 'not about the attorneys, ' but
'about the victims of murder and sometimes their killers.' While
trying to maintain a proper balance in his marriage to Katya, a
fellow attorney and ballroom dancer, he spells out the maze of
legal mumbo-jumbo to get his clients stays or released from
confinement in the cases of a hapless Vietnam vet who shot a child,
another man who beat his pregnant wife to death and another who
killed his wife and children. In the end, Dow's book is a sobering,
gripping and candid look into the death penalty."
--Publishers Weekly
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