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Author Ford, Russ, 1951- author.

Title Crossing the River Styx : the memoir of a death row chaplain / Russ Ford ; with Charles Peppers and Todd C. Peppers
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Russ Ford -- 2. Mac -- 3. Henry Owen Tucker -- 4. Marjorie Lee Bailey -- 5. Morris Odell Mason -- 6. Michael Marnell Smith, Syvasky Lafayette Poyner, and Mickey Wayne Davidson -- 7. Earl Washington Jr. and Joseph Payne -- 8. Alton Waye -- 9. Jerry Bronson Givens -- 10. Wilbert Lee Evans -- 11. Albert Jay Clozza -- 12. Derick Lynn Peterson -- 13. Willie Leroy Jones -- 14. Timothy Dale Bunch -- 15. Andrew John Stanley McKie Chabrol -- 16. Willie Lloyd Turner -- 17. Joseph John Savino III -- 18. Coleman Wayne Gray -- 19. The Bitter and the Good
Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Suggested Readings
Summary "The memoir of Russ Ford, a former Virginia prison chaplain who by the time he retired had accompanied twenty-eight men into the death chamber. Drawing on the stories of the condemned men, and his relationship with them, Ford illuminates the brutality of and myriad problems with capital punishment"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 03, 2023)
Subject Prison chaplains -- Virginia -- Biography
Death row inmates -- Virginia
Capital punishment -- Virginia
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Capital punishment
Death row inmates
Prison chaplains
Virginia
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Peppers, Charles, 2000-
Peppers, Todd C
LC no. 2022026298
ISBN 9780813949123
0813949122