Autobiography of an execution sparknotes brave frontier

“I tell young lawyers who want to be death-penalty lawyers that if it’s going to be disabling to watch your clients die, you need to find something else to do.

Your clients are going to die.”

David R. Dow is a distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the litigation director at the Texas Defender Service. An author, a husband, a father and a dog lover, Dow has watched men get executed and then gone home to hold hands with his wife and gaze lovingly at his little boy.

Autobiography of an execution sparknotes brave frontier

He has wondered if his son’s two-year-old night terrors were his fault, caused by what he brings into the house. In a recent interview with NPR, he talked about how when he leaves his work on death row, he comes home and ritually launders all the clothes he was wearing every time.

“I am always hopeful.

Nothing ever works out, but I always think that it’s going to. How else could you keep doing this work?” Because he