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Waiting to Die: One Man's Journey on Death Row - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Feltus Jr. Taylor, Monique Morrison (Volume Editor)Publish date:4/16/2026Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765157299UPC:9798765157299Book Category:Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Capital Punishment, Criminals & Outlaws, MurderSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCRE36B93M

Is there more to a man than the worst thing he has ever done?

In his raw and unflinching memoir, Waiting to Die: One Man's Journey on Death Row, Feltus Taylor, Jr., a young man from Louisiana, recounts the circumstances shaped by early trauma, instability, and devastating choices that led him to violence and ultimately to Louisiana State Penitentiary's death row. Abandoned as an infant by a drug-addicted mother in and out of prison, Taylor's first three years of his life remain mostly unknown, but what is known reveal clear signs of neglect and abuse. He was bow-legged, had a severe developmental disability, and a speech impediment. He lived with major depression, experienced dissociative seizures, and struggled to make sense of a world that often failed to make sense of him.

Waiting to Die
is not only the story of a convicted murderer; it is a rare and intimate portrait of a life, whom most would dismiss, seen in its entirety. Taylor embarks on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth through writing and spiritual healing. His words, written up to the morning of his death in 2000, reveal the quiet humanity that survives inside confinement and invite readers to sit with the life behind the sentence, challenging us to mourn the man he became just as he mourned the lives he forever harmed, even when redemption comes too late.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765157299UPC:9798765157299Book Category:Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Capital Punishment, Criminals & Outlaws, MurderSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCRE36B93M

Feltus Taylor, Jr. was a young man from Baton Rouge who spent nearly a decade on Louisiana State Penitentiary death row for his involvement in a violent crime in 1991, before he was executed by lethal injection in 2000.

Monique Morrison is a Louisiana native with over 20 years of experience in the film and television industry, and more than half a decade in publishing. She has served as the steward of Taylor's memoir since 2002. Monique now splits her time between Bend, Oregon and Los Angeles, where she resides with her beloved family.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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