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A Saint on Death Row (Hardcover)

By: Thomas Cahill (Author)

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"Cahill doesn't know for sure whether Green is innocent of the murder....[He] argues that the bigger question is whether Green received a fair trial. The answer is a resounding 'no.' A SAINT ON DEATH ROW is not the first book blasting the Texas criminal justice system, and it won't be last. But Cahill's book is one of the most compelling on the subject."

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On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at age eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green admitted to taking part in the robbery, but he insisted he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African Americans on it, sentenced him to death. Despite obvious errors in the legal procedures and the protests of the victim's family, he spent the last twelve years of his life on death row.
In A SAINT ON DEATH ROW, Thomas Cahill traces Green's life from a childhood marked by poverty, abuse, and violence to his transformation into a mature man of grace and wisdom. During his long confinement, he inspired dozens of fellow prisoners to ask the forgiveness of people they had harmed and to learn to forgive those who had destroyed their own lives. Green's remarkable story elicited the attention of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who paid a rare and dramatic visit to him on death row.
Dominique Green achieved a level of goodness, peace, and enlightenment few human beings attain. In portraying his inspiring journey, Cahill illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the headlong quest for justice.

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Historian Thomas Cahill (HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION) writes an impassioned account of the remarkable death row transformation of Dominique Green, a Texas teenager sentenced to death for his part in a convenience store robbery and murder despite compelling evidence that he was not the actual shooter. During his 12 years on death row, Green became a powerful advocate for faith and goodness, an inspirational figure to thousands of people. Cahill met the young man in 2003 (a year before his execution) and become one of Green's most ardent supporters, firmly convinced that, despite the injustices inflicted upon him, he had become a truly enlightened soul. A SAINT ON DEATH ROW is a scathing indictment of racism, the U.S. justice system, and the death penalty--a punishment that allows no room for redemption, that cannot believe in a life as surprising and uplifting as Dominque Green's.

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