Anatomy of an Execution: The Life and Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas
It is an undisputed fact that Chris Thomas was guilty of participating in a brutal double homicide. He was convicted of killing his girlfriend's parents in November of 1990, was sentenced to death in November of 1991, and was executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia in January of 2000. Chris Thomas was one of the last juvenile offenders to be put to death before the Supreme Court ruled that the execution of juveniles constituted cruel and unusual punishment. In Anatomy of an Execution, Todd...
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The crime and punishment of a juvenile offender The Washington Post - Colman McCarthy …an encompassing and often soulful account of the brief life of a person who was both victimizer and victim, friendless and befriended. No sentimentalizing is to be found in these pages of well-documented and carefully crafted prose…A major addition to death-penalty literature, what Peppers and Anderson tell about one inmate in one state in one cell block could easily be the story of any of the 3,200 people now stashed on the nation's death rows. The story of Chris Thomas is unique only because two educators chose not to let it be forgotten that he was a human being. They saw him as more than his crime.
Foreword - Marie Deans Preface Acknowledgments The Major Figures The Seeds Are Sown Love and Murder The Death Penalty in Virginia On Trial for His Life Life on the Row Prelude to an Execution The Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas Concluding Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index
\ From the Publisher"A major addition to death-penalty literature."--Washington Post Book World\ "Anatomy of an Execution is a serious treatment worth reading for anyone interested in the court system and the death penalty."--Roanoke Times\ \ \ \ \ \ Colman McCarthy…an encompassing and often soulful account of the brief life of a person who was both victimizer and victim, friendless and befriended. No sentimentalizing is to be found in these pages of well-documented and carefully crafted prose…A major addition to death-penalty literature, what Peppers and Anderson tell about one inmate in one state in one cell block could easily be the story of any of the 3,200 people now stashed on the nation's death rows. The story of Chris Thomas is unique only because two educators chose not to let it be forgotten that he was a human being. They saw him as more than his crime.\ —The Washington Post\ \
