Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

FBI forensic artist Fitzpatrick questions the guilt of a man about to be executed for her father's murder twenty years earlier.

"Following her Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan's new novel is a tale of self-enlightenment about aboriginal twins separated at birth and the search for roots that reunites them from opposite sides of the globe."--BOOK JACKET. "Once more Morgan unveils the inspiring aboriginal worldview while pointedly exposing the plight of an ancient race rapidly becoming extinct as a result of more than two hundred years of systematic discrimination."--BOOK...

"Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in...

"Ismael Diaz is on death row. As he sits in his cell waiting to die, he writes a diary that reconstructs his life and the circumstances that led him to commit murder. The reader meets a man who is a successful real estate lawyer in Boston until he trespasses on a neighbor's property to put out a "spring cleaning" fire. This incident sets off a chain reaction that results in the loss of everything that has made his life worthwhile. At loose ends,...

The second in the highly intelligent yet commercial legal thriller series written by a death row attorney. Appellate lawyer Janet Moodie is called in to work on a post-conviction investigation on a sordid murder-for-hire case. The client is uncooperative and likely schizophrenic, convicted of arranging the shooting of a drug dealer under orders from the Aryan Brotherhood. It is up to Janet to discover just what was done and by whom, and to determine...

Adapted for young readers, this true story follows a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit and how he transformed not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, until his release in 2015.

The inspiration of the blockbuster film, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, is available in this Spanish language edition. Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, ward superintendent Paul Edgecomb is compelled to help every prisoner walk "the green mile" to execution with his humanity in tact. As narrator, Edgecomb tells the tragic tale of John Coffey, a gentle giant with preternatural ways.