In Last Meal,” Jacquelyn C. Black recre­ates the last acts of 23 peo­ple exe­cut­ed in Texas. Photographs depict­ing each inmate’s last meal are accom­pa­nied by descrip­tions of the inmates, and tran­scripts of their last words before exe­cu­tion. The book also con­tains gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about the death penal­ty. Award-win­ning direc­tor Liz Garbus notes, This pow­er­ful and dis­turb­ing book gives invalu­able insight into the inhu­man­i­ty of the death penal­ty, while pro­vid­ing a snap­shot of the human­i­ty and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty of those on death row.” (Common Courage Press, 2003) See more infor­ma­tion about the book. See Resources.

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