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The Story of Dominique Green
Nan A. Talese
March 2009
On Sale: March 10, 2009
160 pages
ISBN: 0385520190
EAN: 9780385520195
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed
by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the
age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a
robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have
taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did
not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African
Americans on it, sentenced him to death. Despite obvious
errors in the legal procedures and the protests of the
victim’s family, he spent the last twelve years of his life
on Death Row. When Cahill found himself in Texas in December 2003, he
visited Dominique at the request of Judge Sheila Murphy,
who was working on the appeal of the case. In Dominique, he
encountered a level of goodness, peace, and enlightenment
that few human beings ever attain. Cahill joined the fierce
fight for Dominique’s life, even enlisting Dominique’s
hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to make an historic visit to
Dominique and to plead publicly for mercy. Cahill was so
profoundly moved by Dominique’s extraordinary life that he
was compelled to tell the tragic story of his unjust death
at the hands of the state. A Saint on Death Row will introduce you to a young man
whose history, innate goodness, and final days you will
never forget. It also shines a necessary light on America’s
racist and deeply flawed legal system. A Saint on Death Row
is an absorbing, sobering, and deeply spiritual story that
illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the
headlong quest for justice.
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