Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner Paperback - 1998
by Donald A. Cabana
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Death at Midnight is the provocative tale of prison warden Donald Cabana's moral awakening to the evils associated with the death penalty, and of the special relationship forged between a young black prisoner condemned to die and Cabana, the middle-aged white warden condemned to execute him. Cabana recounts his twenty-five-year career in corrections from his early beginnings as a naive but well-meaning prison guard to his tenures as warden at several prisons. He provides insight into prison life and illuminates significant changes and reforms that have occurred over the last two decades. Cabana frames his story with a riveting account of the execution of Connie Ray Evans, a prisoner with whom he developed a close bond during his many visits as warden to death row. He describes in vivid, compassionate detail the last two weeks in the life of Evans, and the same two weeks in the lives of the prison staff preparing to kill him. Cabana takes readers inside the "secretive, mysterious world of the execution chamber", allowing them to witness the execution process and to experience the myriad emotions of both the executioner and the condemned man strapped in a chair called "black death". In the end Cabana reveals that, although he spent most of his career convinced of the need for capital punishment, the eventuality of one day carrying out the death penalty was a disturbing and continual presence in his life and work. Giving the order to execute someone he believed was a reformed man finally led him to adopt an abolitionist stance.
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- Title Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner
- Author Donald A. Cabana
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Northeastern University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-05-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781555533564 / 1555533566
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.92 x 5.99 x 0.65 in (22.66 x 15.21 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044967
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.660
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