TY  - BOOK
N2  - Exposing little-known facts about the five modes of execution practiced in the United States today, Writing for Their Lives documents the progress of life on death row from a capital trial to execution and beyond, through the testimony of the prisoners themselves as well as those who watch, listen, and write to them. What emerges are stories of the survival of the human spirit under even the most unimaginable circumstances, and the ways in which some prisoners find penitence and peace in the most unlikely surroundings. In spite of the uniformity of their prison life and its nearly inevitable conclusion, prisoners able to read and write letters are shown to retain and develop their individuality and humanity as their letters become poems and stories. -- from Publisher's Description.
AB  - Exposing little-known facts about the five modes of execution practiced in the United States today, Writing for Their Lives documents the progress of life on death row from a capital trial to execution and beyond, through the testimony of the prisoners themselves as well as those who watch, listen, and write to them. What emerges are stories of the survival of the human spirit under even the most unimaginable circumstances, and the ways in which some prisoners find penitence and peace in the most unlikely surroundings. In spite of the uniformity of their prison life and its nearly inevitable conclusion, prisoners able to read and write letters are shown to retain and develop their individuality and humanity as their letters become poems and stories. -- from Publisher's Description.
T1  - Writing for their lives :death row U.S.A. /
DA  - c2007.
CY  - Urbana :
AU  - Mulvey Roberts, Marie.
CN  - HV8699.U5
CN  - HV8699.U5
PB  - University of Illinois Press,
PP  - Urbana :
PY  - c2007.
ID  - 353202
KW  - Death row
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Prisoners' writings, American.
KW  - Death row inmates
KW  - Death row inmates
SN  - 9780252070990 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 0252070992 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 9780252027932 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0252027930 (alk. paper)
TI  - Writing for their lives :death row U.S.A. /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005022123.html
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2005022123-b.html
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2005022123-d.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005022123.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2005022123-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2005022123-d.html
ER  -