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Title: important but impressionistic
Review: If you need convincing that the death penalty is a bad idea and you don't care for the academic or philosophical approach, then get this book today. If you want to read a sensitive narrative written to portray what we should already know, then get this book. It's a light read in one sense, full of personal impressions, lovingly crafted to move you. Could be sub-subtitled: One Woman's Journey of Emotion to the Death Row Visitor Box.Describing the prison town in Texas as "America's killing capital" puts the whole book in a slippery context. If I weren't from the area I might appreciate it as gruesome gringo modern emo western. But what about America's medical-malpractice capital, armed-murder capital or fetus-killing capital? Not in Texas. And not on this transient author's radar.The topic is important and deserves every book that can be written about it.Further shopping is recommmended.
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