| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Documentary arts and culture |
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Documentary arts and culture.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Pictures -- 1. Row -- 2. Food -- 3. In the J-23 dayroom -- 4. volleyball game in the cage -- 5. Hands and mirrors -- 6. Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time -- 7. 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 -- 8. Twelve dead men -- pt. II Words -- 1. Being there -- 2. Killable killers -- 3. Dangerous people -- 4. Good time and hard time -- 5. prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White -- 6. Terminology -- 7. Getting to J -- 8. Ellis's yellow line -- 9. Visitors -- 10. Counts -- 11. Recreation -- 12. Porters, floorboys, building tenders -- 13. Noise -- 14. Night, Brandon, Emily, and George -- 15. Violence -- 16. Craziness and boredom -- 17. All the things a man might do on the Row -- 18. Sockets and glass -- 19. Nowhere land -- 20. Time -- 21. Living space and killing space -- 22. death house -- 23. Getting off the Row -- 24. Why execute? -- 25. Equity: Callins v. James -- 26. Giving up on death -- 27. Trends -- 28. Records -- pt. III Working -- 1. Avoiding the Row -- 2. invitation -- 3. Building tenders -- 4. Documenting the Row -- 5. Bona fides -- 6. "T'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" -- 7. Trust -- 8. Why talk? -- 9. Punishing Diane -- 10. Testifying -- 11. Screening Death Row -- 12. Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer -- 13. In This Timeless Time |
| Summary |
In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official "non-period" between sentencing and execution. In the first section, "Pictures," ninety-two photographs taken during their fieldwork for the book and documentary film Death Row illustrate life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. The second section, "Words," further reveals the world of Death Row prisoners and offers an unflinching commentary on the judicial system and the fates of the men they met on the Row. The third section, "Working," addresses profound moral and ethical issues the authors have encountered throughout their careers documenting the Row. Included is a DVD of Jackson and Christian's 1979 documentary film, Death Row |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Death row -- United States
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Death row inmates -- United States
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Capital punishment -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Capital punishment
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Death row
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Death row inmates
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Todesstrafe
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Gefängnis
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United States
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
video recordings (physical artifacts)
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Video recordings
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Video recordings.
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Vidéos.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Christian, Diane, 1939-
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Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies
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| ISBN |
9780807882641 |
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080788264X |
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0807835390 |
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9780807835395 |
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