Ken Light -- Texas Death Row

Texas Death Row

University Press of Mississippi
1995

The raw and austere photographs and the accompanying text of Texas Death Row reveal what we have created in the hopeless world of court-ordered death. Whomever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death. With 82 dutone images, Texas Death Row shows us how the men in America's most active death house eat, sleep, recreate, work, visit and exercise while waiting to die.

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Inmate Playing Chess on Handmade Board Texas Death Row	Telling Tales on the Yard Texas Death Row	Martin Draughon Greeting His Mother Visiting Room Texas Death Row
Execution Chamber at "The Walls" Huntsville, Texas	Todd Willingham on His Bunk Work Capable Cell Block Texas Death Row	Weight-lifter with Makeshift Barbells H-20 Wing, Work Capable Cell Block Texas Death Row
Night View of H Wing Cell Block Texas Death Row		Strip Search "Shakedown Room" of the Visiting Area Texas Death Row