The author is a lawyer for inmates on death row in Texas. This book is about why he fights for these inmates. The author does a good job of geting the reader to think about where they stand regarding the death penalty. It is easy to think of a person that committed brutal crimes as not human at all but in this book we see that they have families, they are someones father, son, brother. "Belief is a decision; it doesn't just happen." We chose to believe, we make efforts to understand what and why we believe something. "There are beutiful things about her I know about that you don't, because you are too judgmental to see them. If you have a friend, you have to take them as they are." Just like a spouse, or a child, good and bad we love them for who God made them to be. "After you kill the bad guys, you're just as angry as you were before, but there ain't no one left to hate." So does killing really solve the problem? "If we are going to execute people in our society becasue we believe that it is an appropriate punishment for people who callously and irresponsibly take another's life, then the people with the power not to execute ought to take responsibility themselves for imposing the punishment, or at least not negating it. It's easier to kill somebody if it's someone else's decision, and if somebody else does the killing. Our death-penalty regime depends for its functionality on moral cowardice." A good book to get one to think about why you believe what you believe. A good insight to how the system works and what really happens to those sitting on death row.
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