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David R. Dow

Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row Paperback – Deckle Edge, May 1 2006

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When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.

It is these concrete accounts of the people Dow has known and represented that prove the death penalty is consistently unjust, and it's precisely this fundamental-and lethal-injustice, Dow argues, that should compel us to abandon the system altogether.

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May 1 2006
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13.72 x 1.27 x 21.34 cm
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0807044199
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An honorably dispassionate and logical broadside against a shameful practice.
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"Dow reveals the dirty little secret of American death-penalty litigation: procedure trumps innocence . . . [His book] is insightful and full of the kinds of revelations that may lead readers to reconsider their stand on the death penalty."—Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune

"Dow's book leaves all else behind. It is powerful, direct, informative, and told in compelling human terms. He makes us see that the issue is not sentiment or retribution or even innocence. It is justice."—Anthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist for the New York Times

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence Network and has represented more than thirty death row inmates. Regularly quoted in publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dow lives in Houston, Texas.

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David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence Network and has represented more than thirty death row inmates.Regrularly quoted in publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dow is the coeditor of Machinery of Death: The Reality of of America's Death Penalty Regime. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807044199
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807044193
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 323 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.72 x 1.27 x 21.34 cm
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David R. Dow is the Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and theory, contract law, the death penalty, and law-and-literature. A graduate of Rice and Yale, Dow is also the founder of the Texas Innocence Network (TIN), Texas' oldest innocence project, and the co-founder (with his wife, Katya) of the Juvenile and Capital Advocacy Project (JCAP). Working through his death penalty clinic, Dow and his team of lawyers, clinical professors, students, and interns, have represented more than one hundred death row inmates during their state and federal appeals.

Dow is the author of both scholarly papers and texts, as well as books for a general audience. His first memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution (published by Twelve), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover award for nonfiction. His second memoir, Things I've Learned From Dying (also published by Twelve), was named by NPR as one of the best books of 2014. Confessions of an Innocent Man, Dow's first novel, was published by Dutton in 2019.

Dow and his wife Katya have one son, Lincoln. They live in Houston and Durango, Colorado, along with their dogs Delano and Soul.

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Andrea coombs
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2018
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K. Peter
Not In My Name!
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2010
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For those who have always wondered why we murder people as punishment for murdering people, this is a riveting read. Written for the lay person though somewhat dense and detailed, it is not always easy but well worth the effort. The overriding moral of this treatise is the death penalty is exacted mostly on poor people and, at that, not necessarily evenhandedly or upon those who are guilty. Dow writes clearly from illuminating examples and with detailed understanding of things as they unfairly are. This is an emotionally charged subject of a complicated act encased in a convoluted legal maze. The accused are victims of a society which values expediency over fairness. David Dow is their powerful advocate.

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jodi r
Love this book
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2010
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I work in the California caurt system and date a Public Defender. This book helped destroy what little faith I had left in the criminal justice system while at the same time lifting my esteem of all those who make their living defending people who the general public have deemed worthless. Please read this book we are all affected by the laws of this country even if we do not realise it untill either ourselfs or a loved one are sucked into the "tough on crime" vortex that we as Americans continue to belive in despite all the evidance that it is not effective.

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Catana
How the law stands in the way of justice.
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014
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Five stars supposedly means that you love a book. No one could love Executed on a Technicality. Rather, it's a source of grief and frustration for anyone who will allow themselve to learn the details of what is mistakenly called criminal justice. If you want to understand the complexity of the laws that control and confuse the pursuit of justice, you can't do much better than this comparatively short book. Dow is not only an experienced death penalty lawyer, he is a deeply compassionate man who somehow continues to practice in spite of losing most of his clients, even the innocent ones, to the execution chamber.

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London r.
Illuminating and well researched!
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2022
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Great research went into this, very well documented and explained in a way most people should be able to understand. Lots of great examples and stories. That having been said, in the middle of the book it sort of runs out of steam. The examples and stories begin to sound very similar, and the same points are made over and over again. However, this book is still extremely valuable and definitely left an impression on me. It's absolutely crazy how our US "justice" system works. Cash really does rule everything.

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