Upon This Chessboard of Nights and Days: Voices from Texas Death Row

ISBN-13: 9781933896366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 213 str.

Et Dana Allen

Opis

In this unique book, prisoners on Texas Death Row share their feelings, hopes, fears, and memories with the reader through a series of nonfiction pieces and original art.Excerpts: "But the thing is, I don't want to getout of prison. This lifeis all I've known for thirty years."--Perry Austin"Death Row has one of the best collections of black widows I've ever seen."--Les Bower." . . we willremain faceless and nameless inmates with just a number, lost and forgotten. . . ."--Anibal Canales"But when you pop the top of a Coca-Cola the smell of freedom is released."--Ivan Cantu"So my life on deathrow is a struggle of equanimity, a testament of fortitude, and a story of indomitable will."--Derrick Johnson"The thing is, none of us get a second chance--not really. Time passes us by and we have to live with the consequences of our actions, orin my case die for them."--Anthony Shore"One can be physically incarcerated, but free in his mind, his thoughts, actions, and how he chooses to look at life's journey."--Charles Thompson"Mostof us became lost souls as children."--Carlos Trevino"Maybe someone will re-evaluate their life basedon these few words and make a change for the betterbefore it istoo late."--Perry Williams

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