| Living on Death Row Contributor(s): Lose, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1593327021 ISBN-13: 9781593327026 Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology |
| Dewey: 364.660 |
| LCCN: 2014011588 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Living on Death Row represents a 13-year ethnographic study of men awaiting their execution while confined on Ohio's Death Row (DR). Lose was granted unprecedented access to conduct confidential interviews in a supermax environment. Slowly he developed a mutual trust with the inmates, and they began to open up about their crimes, lives, hopes, fears and impending executions. Reading Death Row statistics can be a blase experience to some, upsetting to others. But nothing compares to confronting the rampant injustices, horrendous misconceptions and lies about the culture of Death Row. A few are innocent, most are guilty, but all were found guilty of capital murder - not because of their crimes - but due to poverty, mental illness, or minority status. Equally upsetting were the frank, open discussions of their homicides." |