Contents

1. Introduction

2. Facts and Figures

3. Texas, Capital of the Death Penalty

4. Sant’Egidio and the Birth of an International Movement

5. Timeline: From Death to Life

6. Some Thoughts on the Origins and Abolition of the Death Penalty

7. Voices in the Silence

8. Curtis McCarty—A Friend Off Death Row

9. Life Row

10. Between Life and Death: Buddhism,
Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

11. The UN Resolution: Getting to “No”

12. The Innocents

13. Thirteen Ways to Live without the Death Penalty

Afterword by Paul Elie

About the Author