Killing Justice in the Lone Star State: Calling Time on Texas Death Row

Many organizations are engaged in a race to prevent the execution by lethal injection of death sentenced prisoners in Texas (and elsewhere in the USA).Some of these men and women claim to be completely innocent, as described in this book.Texas is the most punitive place within one of the harshest penal systems in the world.Michael O'Brien - who was himself wrongly convicted of murder - dissects a selection of Death Row cases with the eye of a man who has spent years watching how miscarriages of justice happen and why.He explains how practitioners, politicians and others are in denial and how livelihoods depend on a conveyer belt from the courts to the execution chamber.Aided by bias, discrimination and prejudice he describes a killing process triggered by unfair trials, supposed expert evidence and closed minds.This is just one hallmark of a country obsessed with guns, violence and the ultimate penalty.No legal system should take away human lives, especially one tarnished by defects of