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"Wonder how it could be that 126 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated? What's wrong with our court system? Here's a promise: if you accompany Ms. Lytle into these five stories you'll not only "get it," you may be moved to join our efforts to change it."
—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and Death of Innocents

 

"Damn, I wish I had written this book! Leslie Lytle has done a masterful job of drawing out her subjects in interviews (as Studs Terkel might have) and telling their stories in fast-paced narratives (as John Grisham might have). Executioner's Doorstep is a truly compelling work."
—Rob Warden
Executive Director
Center on Wrongful Convictions,
Bluhm Legal Clinic
Northwestern University School of Law

 

"No issue is more important than innocence in the current death penalty discussion.  In "Execution's Doorstep," Leslie Lytle has made an invaluable contribution to this discussion with her detailed and thoroughly readable description of the lives of five men from death row.  These stories would be incredible except that they are told with such skill as to become real and believable.  The impression this book leaves is a strong and important one."
—Richard C. Dieter
Executive Director
Death Penalty Information Center

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Ray Krone
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Accurate information about death penalty issues:

Death Penalty Information Center

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National Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty

The stories of five men unfairly condemned to death.

Execution’s Doorstep tells the true stories of five lives trapped in a living nightmare: sentenced to die for a crime they didn’t commit. Since capital punishment was reinstated in the mid 1970’s, over 120 individuals have been proven wholly innocent of the crimes for which they were sentenced to death. But this statistic, as horrifying as it is, does not begin to tell the whole story. (The five men whose stories are told in Execution's Doorstep will share in proceeds from sales.)