Death Watch A Death Penalty Anthology Author:Lane Nelson, Burk Foster Death Watch is a topical, up-to-date collection of death penalty journalism and personal essays. Drawing on the experiences and perspectives of Lane Nelson, a former death row inmate and current staff writer for "The Angolite," Louisiana's award winning prison news magazine, and Burk Foster, a University of Louisiana-Lafayette crim... more »inal justice professor and jail and prison expert witness, Death Watch looks at the death penalty as a legal process, a social reality, and a fundamental issue of public policy.
The topics covered in this volume include:
*how capital cases are different in the legal process
*how death penalty offenders are selected
*the selective application of the death penalty to women and juveniles
*problems in providing competent counsel to death penalty defendants
*medical issues related to organ donation and physician participation in executions
*the execution of blacks for rape in the South
*how the death penalty was imposed and carried out in the past
*reflections on death row life by inmates under death sentence
*the last words of men and women before execution
*the dilemma of defending the innocent on death row
*feature articles on two Louisiana inmates, Antonio James and John A. Brown, Jr., executed in 1996 and 1997