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Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner

Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner

by Donald A . Cabana (Author)

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    Illustrated 1998

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Synopsis

While an increasingly outspoken American public is quick to endorse the death penalty, the voices of those who experience the chilling reality of executing another human being are seldom heard. Donald A. Cabana chronicles a personal journey through the nation's prison system that culminated in giving the order to execute two death row inmates. Cabana's compelling account brings the reader inside the secretive, mysterious world of the execution chamber to witness the process of an execution and to experience the emotions of the executioner and the man strapped in the chair known as black death.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 216
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 06 Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 1555533566
ISBN 13: 9781555533564

Media Reviews
What makes [Cabana's] book powerful is that he doesn't cloud his experiences with a philosophical diatribe. He carries no agenda except that of a confessor. Though the memoir gains greatly from Cabana's expertise in corrections and will no doubt provide ammunition for anti-death penalty factions, it is best read as the outpouring of one man who simply wants to tell us of the awfulness of putting someone to death, someone who is unmistakably human, someone like you and me. --Paul Bennett, Philadelphia Inquirer

In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty . . . A gentle and affecting addition to the Dead Man Walking canon. --Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio
Donald A. Cabana teaches criminal justice at Southern Mississippi University. He was a prison administrator at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, the Alachua County Department of Corrections in Gainesville, Florida, and the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.