death row inmates

A young, mentally-handicapped, African-American man in 1940s Louisiana, awaiting a death sentence after being wrongfully convicted of murder, receives jail cell visits from the local teacher, who attempts to impart some wisdom and pride to the condemned man before his death.

Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed--if only Noa reveals her motive.

Rennell Price has just fifty-nine days to live unless attorney Terri Paget can convince the courts that her new evidence points to another man, but the wheels of politics already in motion continue to hinder Paget's attempts to free Price.

Ex-convict Gary Gilmore longs to die after he is sentenced to Death Row for robbing and killing two men.

Arthur Raven, the reluctant court-appointed attorney for Rommy Gandolph, a death-row prisoner convicted of triple murder, must face down an ambitious prosecutor, crooked cops, and a disgraced judge when he learns another inmate has new evidence that could exonerate his client.

"In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donte Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donte is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what's right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they're about to execute an innocent man?"--back cover.

Presents a collection of critical essays on the controversy surrounding death penalty law in America and discusses the important social and political issues surrounding it.

Presents the abridged 1940 version of Richard Wright's novel in which a young African-American man trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side accidentally kills a rich white girl and finds himself on a path to self-destruction.

Chronicles the life of Faith Hathaway, whose brutal rape and murder was portrayed in the film "Dead Man Walking" and explores how the film, its popularity, and aftermath impacted Faith's family.