Death Row

Shirley Dicks is the author of 12 books, which are listed on her website at www.shirleydicks.org. She lives in Beechgrove, Tennessee.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Part I. Fighting the Death Penalty1. Joe Ingle      2. Mary Kaki Friskics-Warren      3. Harmon Wray      4. Jeff Blum      5. Watt Espy      6. Patricia Smith      7. Richard Moran      8. The Execution of Juvenile Offenders      9. The Execution of Vietnam Veterans      10. Marie Deans      11. Racism and the Death Penalty      12. Ineffective Trial Representation      13. Execution by Default      14. Executions Despite the Wishes of Prosecutors and Victims’ Families      15. Botched Executions      16. Hugo Bedau      17. Victor Streib      Part II. The Men on Death Row18. Richard Simon      19. Don Johnson      20. Cecil Johnson      21. Billy Groseclose      22. Gary Cone      23. Mr. D.      24. Ron Harries      25. Kenneth O’Guinn      26. Byron Parker      27. Fred Coffee, Jr.      28. Jeff Dicks      Part III. The Families of the Condemned29. Rose Williams—Mother      30. Dovie Page—Mother      31. Georgia Barber—Mother      32. Tina Mathews—Grandmother      33. Dawn & Tanya Perry—Daughters      34. Shirley Dicks—Mother      Bibliography      Index

“powerful and meaningful...a valuable addition”—Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice; “poignant and thought-provoking, the book exposes the contradiction between the struggle for human rights and the use of capital punishment”—CrimeFacts.