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How does it feel to defend a serial killer? To tell a young man that he will be executed in twenty minutes' time? To explain to your five-year-old son that you're late because you couldn't help someone? To realise that a death row convict whose life you hold in your hands is actually innocent?

David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas, a state where 99% of execution appeals are rejected.He defends convicted murderers for the simple reason that he feels putting them to death is wrong. He knows his clients are vicious, violent monsters, but killing a murderer is homicide, and homicide, as David sees it, is morally insupportable.

Yet this routine of resignation - to the fate of both his clients and his young family, whom he can feel slipping away from him by the day - is interrupted by the worst thing that could happen to him: the realization that a client is innocent. Not just undeserving of his imminent execution, like all his other clients, but actually innocent.

In this gripping and hauntingly honest memoir, David confronts a bleak yet stirring scenario: to lose this fight, as he knows is nearly inevitable, will be to watch an innocent man be murdered. Written with searing immediacy, Killing Time is both a masterpiece of personal narrative, and a morally overwhelming exploration of justice, integrity, and humanity.

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`The most arresting of warnings to any decent person flirting with supporting the death penalty, KILLING TIME also warns us to remember family and sanity when drowning in work' --Shami Chakrabarti

`Extraordinary ... it will stay with me a long time' --Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker
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Both a haunting memoir and a gripping legal thriller, this is the story of David Dow, a Texas Death Row Attorney whose life is thrown upside down when he becomes convinced that one of his clients is innocent.

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  • PublisherWilliam Heinemann
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 0434020141
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  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages288
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