One Woman's Search for the Men Who Walked Off America's Death Row.
With the abolition of the death penalty in 1972, 611 convicted rapists and murderers on Death Row were given a second chance at life. Moved by the story of a condemned man she defended, Joan M Cheever set out to find and interview the various members of this class of '72 to discover what became of them - and why they killed in the first place.
'Back From The Dead' tells the personal stories, of both redemption and dismal failure, of 200 of the former condemned, and answers the question at the heart of the death penalty debate: is rehabilitation possible for a convicted killer?
