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Death at Midnight : The Confession of an Executioner by Donald A. Cabana (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNortheastern University Press

ISBN-101555533566

ISBN-139781555533564

eBay Product ID (ePID)288787

Product Key Features

Number of Pages216 Pages

Publication NameDeath at Midnight : the Confession of an Executioner

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

SubjectGeneral, Criminal Law / General

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

AuthorDonald A. Cabana

Subject AreaLaw

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-044967

Reviews"What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me."-Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer, "In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon."--Kirkus Reviews, "What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me."ÑPaul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer, "What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me."--Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer "In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon."-- Kirkus Reviews, What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me., "In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon."ÑKirkus Reviews, "What makes [Cabana's book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me."--Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer, "What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me."--Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer, "After politicians have made speeches and passed laws to legalize state executions, they're nowhere around when the Don Cabanas go to work in the middle of the night to kill a man or woman. 'Breathe deep,' Cabana advises an inmate about to be gassed so that he would die quickly. But after two executions Cabana couldn't do it anymore, and in these searing, soul-baring pages he tells us why."--Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., author of Dead Man Walking, In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon., "In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon."- Kirkus Reviews, "What makes [Cabana's book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me."-Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer, "In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon."-Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal364.6/6/09762

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisWhile an increasingly outspoken American public is quick to endorse the death penalty, the voices of those who experience the chilling reality of executing another human being are seldom heard. Donald A. Cabana chronicles a personal journey through the nation's prison system that culminated in giving the order to execute two death row inmates. Cabana's compelling account brings the reader inside the "secretive, mysterious world of the execution chamber" to witness the process of an execution and to experience the emotions of the executioner and the man strapped in the chair known as "black death."