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David Dow: book signing and discussion

Presented by Brazos Bookstore at Brazos Bookstore

February 15, 2010

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Brazos Bookstore welcomes back David Dow, author of Executed on a Technicality, for a reading from his new book, published February 3, The Autobiography of an Execution.

"For a lot of good reasons, and some that are not so good, executions in the U.S. are carried out in private. The voters, the vast majority of whom support executions, are not allowed to see them. The Autobiography of an Execution is a riveting and compelling account of a Texas execution written and narrated by a lawyer in the thick of the last minute chaos. It should be read by all those who support state sponsored killing." -- John Grisham, author of The Innocent Man

"Defending the innocent is easy. David Dow fights for the questionable. He is tormented, but relentless, and takes us inside his struggle with candor and insight, shudders and all." -- Dave Cullen, author of Columbine

"David Dow's extraordinary memoir lifts the veil on the real world of representing defendants on death row. It will stay with me a long time." -- Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence Network. His areas of expertise include contracts, constitutional law, and death penalty law. He has handled more than fifty appeals, including twenty-five death penalty appeals. He earned his J.D. from Yale University, where he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal.

He is the author of three books, including Executed on a Technicality (2005) and Machinery of Death (2002), and more than one hundred book chapters and professional articles. His essays and editorials on abortion, polygamy, gay marriage, affirmative action, separation of church and state, biblical law, and judicial activism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Progressive, The Houston Chronicle, and The Dallas Morning News.