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Death Row Defense Attorney Discusses Replacing the Death Penalty

April 11, 2011

Last Friday, NPR’s Fresh Air replayed an interview with Attorney David Dow, who has defended death row inmates in Texas for nearly two decades.

Dow recently wrote a book, The Autobiography of an Execution, that discusses replacing the death penalty with life without parole.  The book is now available in paperback.

From NPR:

“Attorney David Dow has made a career out of defending death row inmates in Texas – a state that boasts the highest number of death row executions nation-wide since 1976.

In the last twenty years, Dow has defended over 100 inmates sentenced to death. Many of his clients have died – most of them were guilty – but Dow says they should have been sentenced to life in prison instead of death at the hands of the state.

“The person that we’re executing is simply not the same person who committed the crime that landed that person on death row in the first place,” Dow tells Terry Gross.

Dow’s new book, The Autobiography of an Execution, is in part an exploration of the politics behind the death penalty and an argument for its abolition.  It’s also a memoir; Dow delves into how this line of work has affected his family life.

David Dow is the litigation director at the Texas Defender Service and teaches law at the University of Houston Law Center.”

You can listen to the interview here.

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