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Bobby West with his Cub Scout picture
Does the death penalty solve anything?
A startling new book begs the question as it takes readers on a grim visit to what is the end of the road for some.
In "Texas Death Row" we meet cold-blooded killers, tamed once and for all: Billy Mason, who murdered his wife. Emerson Rudd, whose $800 Captain D's robbery ended in death for the restaurant manager.
Their days pass in the seamless, constricted rigidity of Death Row. A capricious appeals system keeps them all hoping that they'll get lucky; most of the inmates are young, had no idea that the death penalty even existed when they committed their crimes.
When it comes right down to it, Death Row is a place we should all visit, even if only in the pages of a book.
©1997, ProMotion, inc.
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