Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner

By Donald A. Cabana and Donald A. Cabana

Book Overview

While an increasingly outspoken American public is quick to endorse the death penalty, the voices of those who experience the chilling reality of executing another human being are seldom heard. Donald... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555532640
• ISBN13: 9781555532642
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Book True To Its Name

Being a former student of Dr. Cabana, his true emotions and life experiences are conveyed perfectly in this book. While it does condemn the death penalty, you actually get a feel of what it is like to actually put another person to death. Something that is awe striking. Whether you support or oppose capital punishment, this book is an inviting look into real executions and the emotions that accompany them. Congrats Dr. C on a great read . . . wish I hadn't graduated so I could take some more classes under you.

The truth from the inside

Thank goodness for Donald Cabana, who is one former death row warden not afraid to speak the truth. As a prison minister who has personally met over 50 death row inmates, I join Cabana in his affirmation of the humanity of those imprisoned...and in his condemnation of the death penalty. Cabana has witnessed the reality of the system in action, and knows that there is a better way to fight crime.

The REAL Death Row

I read this book for a class assignment thinking it would be another druge. When i finished reading it however i had tears in my eyes because I realized how much real life can be like a movie. Cabana did an excellent job explaining how much the prison systems were messed up. He starts out not being able to hold in his excitment at being accepted to work in a prison, and by the end of the book, even though he had the job he always wanted, can't wait to get away from it all. He also brings out that everyone is human, it doesn't matter if you're an inmate or the inmate's warden, you are still able to find your real friends, and they aren't always where you'd expect them to be! They only fault i could find in this book is that although Cabana tries very hard to convince the reader that the death penalty is wrong, he doesn't give enough evidence why it shouldn't be alright for anyone besides himself to not mind the death penalty. While i oppose it, i probably wouldn't have been convinced from this book alone. Overall though if you want to read a good book, Death at Midnight is extrordinary!

An extremely gripping story! A great book!

As a strong supporter of capital punishment, reading this book made me rethink the issue of executions. I think it is necessary to execute people who commit heinous crimes. They have taken a life, therefore must their life be taken. But I think that if you are personally involved in executions, like Mr. Cabana, it is possible that you change your mind and attitude towards executions and the death penalty itself. You can see in this book that Don Caban changed his mind about the death penalty: A long time he was a supporter of it and thought it was the correct punishment to a heinous crime, but after carrying out excutions himself, especially after Connie Ray Evanses, he was against it. I am 20 years old and I found this book so interesting I read it within a week! I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about executions and who wants to get an insider's view of capital punishment.