
For a lot of good reasons, and some that are not so good, executions in the U.S. are carried out in private. [This] is a riveting and compelling account of a Texas execution written and narrated by a lawyer in the thick of the last minute chaos.--John Grisham.

Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. "People think that because I am against the death penalty and don't think people should be executed, that I forgive those people for what they did. Well, it isn't my place to forgive...

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