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A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green by Thomas Cahill
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780385520195
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385520190
ISBN-13
9780385520195
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70940680
Product Key Features
Book Title
Saint on Death Row : the Story of Dominique Green
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Religious, General
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-036329
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"There are many ways to tell the tragic story of America's death rows. Tom Cahill has chosen to show -- through the extraordinary life of one man -- that God is always working everywhere and can bring the most beautiful soul to maturity in even the most horrifying circumstances. If you read his story, you will never forget Dominique Green, nor will you ever feel the same way about our courts, our prisons, and our criminal justice system. This book is a life-changer." -Sister Helen Prejean, author ofDead Man Walking "Dominique Green was a wonderful man whose life demonstrated the power of God to heal and transfigure even the most unlikely people and places. Who could have expected that Texas Death Row would be made into an avenue of divine grace? -- which is exactly what happened through Dominique's instrumentation. Though this is a book that ends in death, it does not end in despair. Read it and discover how even the obscenity of capital punishment can be transformed into an occasion of light and peace." -Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa "A tremendously moving book--all the more effective because of the tempered voice with which Cahill narrates an unspeakable injustice. Dominique Green's personal and moral triumph, prior to his execution under the benighted legal processes of Texas, is portrayed with so much sensitivity, and the racial factor that Cahill emphasizes is conveyed so forcefully, that I expectA Saint On Death Rowto become a classic in the growing struggle to cleanse this nation finally of the sin of the death penalty." -Jonathan Kozol "A deeply moving narrative about a man transformed as he faced an unjust execution." -James H. Cone, author ofBlack Theology and Black PowerandMartin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare? "A Saint on Death Rowis not the first book blasting the Texas criminal justice system, and it won't be last. But Cahill's book is one of the most compelling." -San Antonio Express "Cahill stimulates deep thought about good and evil, and he is an intelligent, engaging historian….A Saint on Death Rowis an affecting book." -Dallas Morning News "A Saint on Death Rowtells, on one level, the Kafkaesque particulars of one young black man's transmogrifying journey through the justice system to its ultimate punishment. On another level, the book is the story of how a young black man held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day helped inspire a movement for an international moratorium on state-sanctioned executions, helped inspire a U.N. resolution against the death penalty, hosted a pilgrimage by South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu to death row in Huntsville, Tex., and helped transform the lives of the other men with whom he shared death row. Most powerful, however, is the story of redemption and forgiveness contained in this slim volume. In stunning testimony of the human heart's capability for forgiveness, Bernatte and Andre Lastrapes, the wife and son of the man Dominique Green was executed for allegedly having killed, spoke out about the injustice of Green's trial and bore witness to both Green's personal apotheosis and the inexorably tragic meaninglessness of his execution. Cahill, author of the popular 'Hinges of History in the Western World' collection (includingHow the Irish Saved CivilizationandThe Gift of the Jews) does not write as a polemicist, an expert on the law, or as courtroom dramatist. With deceptively casual prose, Cahill writes of how he came to be personally involved with Green's case and, more deeply, with Green himself. More like a set of extended reflective journal entries-indeed, Cahill's prologue is him q
Dewey Decimal
364.66092 B
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
HV8701.G74C34 2009
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