Former Texas prison chaplain Rev. Carroll Pickett, working with two time Edgar Award-winner and New York Times best selling author Carlton Stowers, provides this eloquent, unflinching look at capital punishment.
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February 2003
On Sale: January 20, 2003
284 pages ISBN: 1904132235 EAN: 9781904132233 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Former Texas prison chaplain Rev. Carroll Pickett, working
with two time Edgar Award-winner and New York Times best
selling author Carlton Stowers, provides this eloquent,
unflinching look at capital punishment.
Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Pickett,
who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The
Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In
that capacity Rev. Pickett ministered to 95 men before they
were put to death by lethal injection. They came with
sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good
Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry-a few who might
even have been innocent. All of them found in Rev. Pickett
their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look
at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted
criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as.
This first-hand experience gave Rev. Pickett the unique
insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the
realities of capital punishment in America. The result is a
thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader
inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and
inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts
and observations not only about capital punishment, but
about the dark world of prison society.
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