Killing Time

One Man's Race To Stop An Execution

David Dow

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Heinemann
01 February 2010

Biography; Memoirs; Ethical issues: capital punishment

Both a haunting memoir and a gripping legal thriller, this is the story of David Dow, a Texas Death Row Attorney, whose life is thrown upside-down when he becomes convinced that one of his clients is innocent.

By: David Dow
Imprint: Heinemann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781741669459
ISBN 10: 1741669456
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 February 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David R. Dow is the University Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, and the litigation director at the Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit legal aid corporation that represents death-row inmates. As an appellate lawyer, he has represented more than one hundred death-row inmates over the past twenty years. A graduate of Rice and Yale, Dow is the editor (with Mark Dow) of Machinery of Death, and the author of Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row and America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great, as well as a treatise on contract law. Dow is also the author of more than one hundred professional articles and essays, and his work has appeared in many popular publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Progressive, the Texas Observer, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle. He resides with his wife, their son, and their dog in Houston.