Waubonsee Community College

In this timeless time, living and dying on death row in America, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

In this timeless time

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Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

Documentary arts and culture

living and dying on death row in America

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Pictures -- 1.The Row -- 2.Food -- 3.In the J-23 dayroom -- 4.A volleyball game in the cage -- 5.Hands and mirrors -- 6.Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time -- 7.Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated -- 8.Twelve dead men -- pt. II Words -- 1.Being there -- 2.Killable killers -- 3.Dangerous people -- 4.Good time and hard time -- 5.The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White -- 6.Terminology -- 7.Getting to J -- 8.Ellis's yellow line -- 9.Visitors -- 10.Counts -- 11.Recreation -- 12.Porters, floorboys, building tenders -- 13.Noise -- 14.Night, Brandon, Emily, and George -- 15.Violence -- 16.Craziness and boredom -- 17.All the things a man might do on the Row -- 18.Sockets and glass -- 19.Nowhere land -- 20.Time -- 21.Living space and killing space -- 22.The death house -- 23.Getting off the Row -- 24.Why execute? -- 25.Equity: Callins v. James -- 26.Giving up on death -- 27.Trends -- 28.Records -- pt. III Working -- 1.Avoiding the Row -- 2.An invitation -- 3.Building tenders -- 4.Documenting the Row -- 5.Bona fides -- 6."T'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" -- 7.Trust -- 8.Why talk? -- 9.Punishing Diane -- 10.Testifying -- 11.Screening Death Row -- 12.Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer -- 13.In This Timeless Time