BOOKS: ​“Last Rights” by Rev. Joseph Ingle with Introduction by Mike Farrell

Reverend Joseph B. Ingle’s book, Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State’s Justice, will be re-released in May with a new intro­duc­tion by Mike Farrell (of M*A*S*H*) and with its orig­i­nal for­ward by William Styron. Rev. Ingle, who has coun­seled inmates on death row for over 30 years, recounts his close rela­tion­ships with 13 of these inmates before their exe­cu­tions. Devoting a chap­ter to each one, Ingle stress­es the need to see each inmate as an indi­vid­ual. He writes, ​“The pub­lic needs to see them for who they were and how their love enriched my life.”

(Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State’s Justice, by Joseph B. Ingle, Sterling Publishing, May 2008). See Books. Posted March 11, 2008.