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Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain

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Availability:In StockContributor:Russ Ford, Todd C. Peppers, Charles PeppersPublish date:2023-03-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Virginia PressISBN-13:9780813949116ISBN-10:813949114UPC:9780813949116Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, United States, Capital PunishmentBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.82 x 5.67 x 0.39 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCJ0SDNGCG

Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain

The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia's death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty--now outlawed in Virginia--while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house during the final days and hours of their lives. In July 1990 he...

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Virginia PressISBN-13:9780813949116ISBN-10:813949114UPC:9780813949116Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, United States, Capital PunishmentBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.82 x 5.67 x 0.39 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCJ0SDNGCG

Russ Ford is a retired chaplain. Charles Peppers is an independent writer and educator. Todd C. Peppers is the Henry H. and Trudye H. Fowler Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College and a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University.


Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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