Life on Death Row

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Summary: a must read
Review: I read the book within 3 days although English isn't my mother tongue.
In Switzerland we don't have no death row and death penalty and so it was very interesting - and strange - to read about life on death row.
That book wa a real page turner for me and my interest was not to read about horror and whatsoever but about a human being living under such circumstances in a prison in Arizona.
I only know a few about Robert Murray and his case, but I read a lot of things about laws and trials in the USA.
I don't know if Murray's innocent or not,, but his book shows me that, whatever he committed, he's still a human being with feelings and emotions.

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Summary: One of the best about death row
Review: Robert Murray will prpbably spend the rest of his life on death row in Arizona. In his book, hee tells about the days in prison and his feelings and the daily routine.
For a free man it gives a small impression how life is on death row.
That book is very important for anyone who likes to know how men live behind prison walls.
Strongly recommended!

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Summary: The Truth
Review: Wow! I keep shaking my head, in fits and starts. Here is the clearest, most erudite document that I've yet read (and there have been many) regarding existence on one of America's death row facilities and the catastrophe of our judicial system. I have a bias here because I am currently watching a close friend undergo the exact same calamity that author/inmate Robert Murray so eloquently captures in this fine, eye-opening book. From drunken lawyers (if you can't operate a vehicle legally under the influence, should you be allowed to defend a man's life while inebriated?), counsel afraid of their clients, juries only selected with a prejudice for a death sentence, political posturing, the list goes on ad infinitum.... I have been searching for a work that explains my utter amazement and horror at what I've witnessed to give to friends and family to help them understand my change of heart regarding capital punishment. This is the finest example to date that I have come across embodying the naked truth of our tax dollars being spent to perpetuate state sanctioned murder (this is the listed cause of death on the death certificate). The only error I found in the entire text is concerning the application of death via the "more humane" procedure of lethal injection. In actuality, it is the norm that when the killing agent is introduced into the bloodstream that a violent convulsing reaction occurs comparable to extinguishment by gas or electricity. But, as Mr. Murray so aptly points out, he wouldn't be privy to such information because nobody ever returns from the death house to tell him about it. As the saying goes, capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment.