Here is the introduction to an interview featuring David Dow, an attorney who defends death row inmates and works to reduce their sentences to life in prison. He currently works for the Texas Defender Service and teaches law at the University of Houston Law Center. Here’s a brief quote from the original article at NPR.org that includes an excerpt from his book, The Autobiography Of An Execution, and a link to listen to the interview conducted by Terry Gross.
Attorney David Dow has made a career out of defending death row inmates in Texas — a state that boasts the highest number of death row executions nation-wide since 1976.
In the last twenty years, Dow has defended over 100 inmates sentenced to death. Many of his clients have died — most of them were guilty — but Dow says they should have been sentenced to life in prison instead of death at the hands of the state.
“The person that we’re executing is simply not the same person who committed the crime that landed that person on death row in the first place,” Dow tells Terry Gross.
Read the rest of the article and hear the audio of the interview here.
