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Working with two time Edgar award-winner and New York Times best-selling author Carlton Stowers, Reverend Carroll Pickett examines his career as a prison chaplain in George W. Bush's Texas. Raised according to the "eye for an eye" standard of justice that prevails in his home state, Rev. Pickett spent 15 years offering what comfort he could to 95 of the worst criminals in Texas history as they drew their final breaths. Often, Pickett served as the final confessor to men with nicknames like "The Good Samaritan Killer," and "The Candy Man," men whose unspeakable acts of violence were rewarded with capital punishment, and who felt the need, one last time, to exorcise the memories that haunted them. Rev. Pickett spent hours with each man before his death, and his memoir takes the reader from the heads of the condemned to the execution chamber. Rev. Pickett has become a fierce opponent of the death penalty, and as the debate rages around the most controversial topic in the United States today, his story will provide the definitive look at "legal state-mandated homicide."
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