Crowley County Combined Library

"Ismael Diaz is on death row. As he sits in his cell waiting to die, he writes a diary that reconstructs his life and the circumstances that led him to commit murder. The reader meets a man who is a successful real estate lawyer in Boston until he trespasses on a neighbor's property to put out a "spring cleaning" fire. This incident sets off a chain reaction that results in the loss of everything that has made his life worthwhile. At loose ends,...

Relates the life of an African American inmate, sentenced to death for taking part in a robbery in which a victim was killed, and for whom opponents of the death penalty spent twelve years unsuccessfuly trying to have the case reviewed and his sentence overturned

"The fascinating story of a friendship with an inmate on death row. It was a clash of race, privilege, and circumstance when Alan Robertson first signed up to visit Cecil Johnson on Death Row and offer spiritual guidance. The minister's wife Suzanne had no intention of being involved until a fateful chance phone call. That Cecil and she eventually became such close friends-a white middle-class woman and a Black man who grew up devoid of advantage-is...

This gripping story about the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years draws on accounts from family, prisoners, government officials, and friends to show how God used a remarkable woman to reach countless lives with a message of redemption and joy. Linda Strom, Tucker's spiritual advisor and close friend for eleven years, includes photographs as well as excerpts from Tucker's letters and interviews

Rafael Zhettah relishes the simplicity and freedom of his life. He is the owner and head chef of a promising Houston restaurant, a pilot with open access to the boundless Texas horizo and a bachelor, content with having few personal or material attachments. When he finds Tieresse-billionaire, philanthropist, sophisticate, bombshell-sitting at one of his tables he also finds his soul mate, and his life starts again. And just as fast, she is brutally...

Finding Joy on Death Row is the powerful story of a broken preacher's transformative experience learning about joy from death row prisoners, combined with profound handwritten responses from more than twenty men currently sentenced to die. As Pastor Dewey Williams serves and shepherds death row prisoners, their stories and unveiled, reminding him of his broken past. The testimonies and contemplations of those sentenced to death continue to bring Pastor...

"Yours for Eternity is an intimate look at the extraordinary love story between Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, who met and married while Echols--author of the New York Times bestseller Life After Death--served nearly eighteen years on death row"--Provided by publisher.

"Angela Pisel's poignant debut explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and their quest to discover the truth and whether or not love can prevail--even from behind bars. Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant son, her last breath will be taken on February 15 at 12:01 a.m. Eleven years, five months, and twenty-seven days separate her from the last time she heard her precious...

Ku Klux Klan member Sam Cayhall, sentenced to death for his role in the 1967 bombing of the Mississippi law offices of civil rights activist Marvin Kramer in which Kramer's two sons died, is forced to consider his life and actions when Adam Hall, a young attorney with the Chicago law firm that has been handling the case, volunteers in 1990 to file Cayhall's final appeals.