A new nov­el by Dax-Devlon Ross, Make Me Believe: A Crime Novel Based on Real Events, fol­lows the dis­cov­er­ies and dan­ger­ous encoun­ters of a fic­tion­al author inves­ti­gat­ing the case of Toronto Patterson, the last juve­nile defen­dant exe­cut­ed in Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down this prac­tice in 2005. Employing actu­al inter­views with Patterson, court doc­u­ments, news arti­cles and court­room tes­ti­mo­ny, Ross’s book blends fact and fic­tion to con­front some of the prob­lems of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in Texas while pro­vid­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry. Dax-Devlon Ross is a lawyer and writer of non­fic­tion, fic­tion and poetry.

(D. Ross, ​“Make Me Believe: A Crime Novel Based on Real Events,” Outside the Box Publishing, 2011). 

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