A Saint on Death Row is an angry condemnation of the Texas criminal justice system. At the urging of a Chicago friend, Cahill stopped to visit Dominique Green on Texas' Death Row in December 2003 while on a book-tour stop in Houston. That visit sparked Cahill's outrage and colored his dark understanding of what can pass for justice in Texas.
No one escapes Cahill's wrath. The police, the state prosecutors, court-appointed lawyers, judges, juries, criminal evidence labs, politicians, the prison system and the U.S. appellate courts all played a role in the October 2004 execution of Green, who was 30.
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