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Return to the Detour To Death Row main page Recommended Reading List from
Detour To Death Row, by David Atwood
If you are unable to find the books recommended in Detour To Death Row at your local bookstore, you can buy them all at Amazon.com.
Adams, Randall D., Adams vs. Texas. St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Bedau, Hugo A., ed. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Cheever, Joan M., Back from the Dead: One Woman’s Search for the Men Who Walked Off America’s Death Row. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006.
Cook, Kerry Max. Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. William Morrow, 2007.
Davies, Nick. White Lies: Rape, Murder, and Justice Texas Style. Pantheon, 1991.
Dow, David R., Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America’s Death Row. Beacon Press, 2005.
Houle, Kristin, Mental Illness and the Death Penalty Resource Guide, September, 2007 is available online or by calling 512-441-1808.
King, Rachel. Don’t Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty. Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Lifton, Robert J. and Mitchell, Greg. Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience and the End of Executions. William Morrow, 2000.
Marquart, James, Ekland-Olson, Sheldon and Sorensen, James. The Rope, The Chair, and The Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. University of Texas, 1994.
Megivern, James J., The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey. Paulist Press, 1997.
Pickett, Carrol and Carlton Stowers. Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain. St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Random House, 1993.
Radelet, Michael L., Bedau, Hugo A. and Putnam, Constance E. In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases. Northeastern, 1994.
Recinella, Dale, The Biblical Truth about America’s Death Penalty. Northeastern, 2004.
Sarat, Austin. When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Scheck, Barry, Neufield, Peter and Dwyer, Jim. Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted. Doubleday, 2000.
Von Drehle, David. Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture on Death Row. Crown, 1995.
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