Death Watch A Death Penalty Anthology

Death Watch is a topical, up-to-date collection of death penalty journalism and personal essays. Drawing on the experiences and perspectives of Lane Nelson, a former death row inmate and current staff writer for "The Angolite," Louisiana's award winning prison news magazine, and Burk Foster, a University of Louisiana-Lafayette criminal justice professor and jail and prison expert witness, Death Watch looks at the death penalty as a legal process, a social reality, and a fundamental issue of public policy.The topics covered in this volume include:--how capital cases are different in the legal process-how death penalty offenders are selected-the selective application of the death penalty to women and juveniles-problems in providing competent counsel to death penalty defendants-medical issues related to organ donation and physician participation in executions-the execution of blacks for rape in the South-how the death penalty was imposed and carried out in the past-reflections on death row life by inmates under death sentence-the last words of men and women before execution-the dilemma of defending the innocent on death row-feature articles on two Louisiana inmates, Antonio James and John A. Brown, Jr., executed in 1996 and 1997-the ethics of the death penalty todayNelson, Lane is the author of 'Death Watch A Death Penalty Anthology', published 2000 under ISBN 9780130852014 and ISBN 0130852015.