Definitive and objective, Texas Death Row will provide ample fuel for readers on both sides of the death penalty debate.
Ken Light and his camera were permitted unparalleled access to Texas death row. His stark, powerful images show where and how the condemned live. In the year he took these...
Whoever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death. Light's photographs make us ask what we have done in sanctioning execution.
Definitive and objective, Texas Death Row will provide ample fuel for readers on both sides of the death penalty debate.
Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era
No other state has executed as many people as Texas has. Texas Death Row is the first book to present the basic facts concerning each of the individuals executed in Texas since the reinstitution of the death penalty in 1974.