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Welcome To Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row » (2nd Edition)
Authors: Jan Arriens, Helen Prejean, Clive Stafford Smith
ISBN-13: 9781555536367, ISBN-10: 1555536360
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: 2nd Edition
Author Biography: Jan Arriens
Jan Arriens is an activist against the death penalty and founder of LifeLines. Sister Helen Prejean is the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Clive Stafford Smith is Director of the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center in New Orleans.
Book Synopsis
Now in a new edition, condemned men and women speak for themselves about the reality behind bars on death row.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Beginnings | 3 |
| 2 | Killing our mistakes | 16 |
| 3 | Society's debt - and society's response | 28 |
| 4 | An evil place | 44 |
| 5 | Welcome to hell | 66 |
| 6 | Prison life | 86 |
| 7 | Three blind mice and a cocktail | 111 |
| 8 | When someone deeply listens | 125 |
| 9 | The pee-pee dance | 147 |
| 10 | Facing the end | 164 |
| 11 | The murderer lives | 188 |
| 12 | A simple plastic mirror | 201 |
| 13 | Remorse | 208 |
| 14 | Religion | 217 |
| 15 | Life's losers | 238 |
| 16 | In the belly of the beast | 251 |
| 17 | Scraping away hope, faith, and dreams | 259 |
| App | The appeals process | 273 |
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