Texas Death Row

A chilling catalog of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for their crimes. The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing debates in American politics, and ground zero for this national debate is the execution chamber in Huntsville, Texas. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, Texas has put more than four hundred prisoners to death, far more than any other state. Texas Death Row puts faces to those condemned men and women, with start details on their crimes, sentencing, last meals, and last words. Definitive and objective, Texas Death Row will provide ample fuel for readers on both sides of the death-penalty debate.