Within these walls
Subtitle: memoirs of a death house chaplain
By: Carroll Pickett with Carlton Stowers.
Contributors: Stowers, Carlton.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781904132745
Subjects: Pickett, Carroll; Prison chaplains -- Texas -- Biography; Church work with prisoners -- Texas; Death row -- Texas
Genres: Biography
Description: "Within These Walls is the memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity Reverend Pickett ministered to ninety-five men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry - a few who might have even been innocent. All of them found in Reverend Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as. This firsthand experience gave Reverend Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America.

The result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in the USA in 2002 by St Martin's Press.