When David Dow was first asked to represent death row inmates, he supported the death penalty. Capital punishment was an abstraction to him, and he imagined that death row was filled with characters like Charles Manson and Hannibal Lecter. Dow gradually realized that his perception of the death penalty and those on death row was completely incorrect. Dow began witnessing the profound injustices the inmates consistently endured: from confessions coerced by the police to bizarrely incompetent lawyers; from corrupt prosecutors and backward judges to racist juries. None of his clients was a...
When David Dow was first asked to represent death row inmates, he supported the death penalty. Capital punishment was an abstraction to him, and he im...
America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definition and historical account of judicial activism and by arguing that it is a method of prophetic adjudication which is essential to preserving American values. Dow confounds the allegation of the Christian right that judicial activism is legally and morally unsound by tracing the roots of American judicial activism to the methods of legal and moral interpretation developed by the prophets of the Hebrew Bible. He claims that Isaiah, Amos, and Jesus...
America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definitio...
Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. "People think that because I am against the death penalty and don't think people should be executed, that I forgive those people for what they did. Well, it isn't my place to forgive people, and if it were, I probably wouldn't. I'm a judgmental and not very forgiving guy. Just ask my wife." It this spellbinding true crime narrative, Dow takes us inside of prisons, inside the complicated minds of judges, inside execution-administration chambers, into the lives of death row inmates (some shown to...
Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. "People think that because I am against the death pena...
How does it feel to defend a serial killer? To tell a young man that he will be executed in 20 minutes time? David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas. He defends convicted murderers for the simple reason that he feels putting them to death is wrong.
How does it feel to defend a serial killer? To tell a young man that he will be executed in 20 minutes time? David Dow is a leading death row attorney...
