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020 $a190413274X (pbk.)
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050 00 $aHV8867$b.P53 2003
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100 1 $aPickett, Carroll.
245 10 $aWithin these walls :$bmemoirs of a death house chaplain /$cCarroll Pickett with Carlton Stowers.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2003, c2002.
300 $axv, 256 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aOriginally published in the USA in 2002 by St Martin's Press.
520 1 $a"Within These Walls is the memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity Reverend Pickett ministered to ninety-five men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry - a few who might have even been innocent. All of them found in Reverend Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as. This firsthand experience gave Reverend Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America.
520 8 $aThe result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society."--Jacket.
600 10 $aPickett, Carroll.
650 0 $aPrison chaplains$zTexas$vBiography.
650 0 $aChurch work with prisoners$zTexas.
650 0 $aDeath row$zTexas.
700 1 $aStowers, Carlton.