Paperback. The author takes the reader into the harrowing world of the ultimate punishment. Here are the lawyers, on both sides, who dedicate their lives to saving or ending the lives of the accused. Here are the judges who pass the sentences and the politicians who pass the buck. And here are the inmates, staring at their walls and looking death in the face. A work of profound insight and stark vision, the author sheds a revelatory light on this deepest, darkest realm. With Sources and Index. 437pp. mass market p/back. F. with no creasing to covers.