In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.
2012
KF9227.C2 J336 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.
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Imprint
[Chapel Hill] : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Description
xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm + 1 videodisc (DVD ; 4 3/4 in.)
Series
Documentary arts and culture.
Formatted Contents Note
On death row
pt. I. Pictures : The row ; Food ; In the J-23 dayroom ; A volleyball game in the cage ; Hands and mirrors ; Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time ; Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated ; Twelve dead men
pt. II. Words : Being there ; Killable killers ; Dangerous people ; Good time and hard time ; The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White ; Terminology ; Getting to J ; Ellis's yellow line ; Visitors ; Counts ; Recreation ; Porters, floorboys, building tenders ; Noise ; Night, Brandon, Emily, and George ; Violence ; Craziness and boredom ; All the things a man might do on the row ; Sockets and glass ; Nowhere land ; Time ; Living space and killing space ; The death house ; Getting off the row ; Why execute? ; Equity: Callins v. James ; Giving up on death ; Trends ; Records
pt. III. Working : Avoiding the row ; An invitation ; Building tenders ; Documenting the row ; Bona fides ; "I'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" ; Trust ; Why talk? ; Punishing Diane ; Testifying ; Screening Death Row ; Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer ; In This Timeless Time
Appendixes : 1. Layout of Ellis Unit inside the Fence ; 2. The DR three-ring binder ; 3. Justice Thurgood Marshall's dissent in Gregg v. Georgia
Cases.
pt. I. Pictures : The row ; Food ; In the J-23 dayroom ; A volleyball game in the cage ; Hands and mirrors ; Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time ; Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated ; Twelve dead men
pt. II. Words : Being there ; Killable killers ; Dangerous people ; Good time and hard time ; The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White ; Terminology ; Getting to J ; Ellis's yellow line ; Visitors ; Counts ; Recreation ; Porters, floorboys, building tenders ; Noise ; Night, Brandon, Emily, and George ; Violence ; Craziness and boredom ; All the things a man might do on the row ; Sockets and glass ; Nowhere land ; Time ; Living space and killing space ; The death house ; Getting off the row ; Why execute? ; Equity: Callins v. James ; Giving up on death ; Trends ; Records
pt. III. Working : Avoiding the row ; An invitation ; Building tenders ; Documenting the row ; Bona fides ; "I'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" ; Trust ; Why talk? ; Punishing Diane ; Testifying ; Screening Death Row ; Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer ; In This Timeless Time
Appendixes : 1. Layout of Ellis Unit inside the Fence ; 2. The DR three-ring binder ; 3. Justice Thurgood Marshall's dissent in Gregg v. Georgia
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Summary
Presents an examination of life on death row in a Texas prison, covering the brutal everyday experiences of the inmates and discussing the inconsistencies and arbitrariness of the judicial system in condeming prisoners.
Note
"Published ... in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF9227.C2 J336 2012
Language
English
ISBN
9780807835395 cloth alkaline paper
0807835390 cloth alkaline paper
0807835390 cloth alkaline paper
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