Book review Karla Faye tucker set free: Life and faith on death row
| Autor | Edward J. Schauer |
| Cargo | Equip the Saints |
| Páginas | 1-3 |
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Fecha de recepción: 31/01/2014
Fecha de aceptación: 10/02/2014
BOOK REVIEW KARLA FAYE TUCKER SET FREE: LIFE AND FAITH ON
DEATH ROW
RESEÑA AL LIBRO: KARLA FAYE TUCKER LIBERADA: FE Y LA VIDA EN EL
CORREDOR DE LA MUERTE
Dr. Edward J. Schauer
Equip the Saints
Edward.Schauer@sbcglobal.net
Estados Unidos de América
By Linda Strom. (Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, 2006. Pp. 240) (ISBN 0-
87788-775-6, $11.99)
While written from a totally religious perspective, Karla Faye Tucker Set Free: Life
and Faith on Death Row (Set Free) is especially useful to aid in the understanding of
religious commitments or conversion experiences and their resultant behavioral
outcomes of persons on death rows in prisons across the United States of America
(US). This informative and evidential value extends not only to religious professionals
such as prison chaplains, but also to others with interest or stake in issues relating to
capital punishment, death row experiences, and/or with the carrying out of executions.
Useful for the academy, for those who practice law, and for criminal justice
practitioners, Set Free offers a helpful glimpse into amazingly valuable human
interactions founded on hope and developing trust in the most hopeless settings
imaginable.
Penologists have good reason to doubt the veracity of the claims of death row
inmates who maintain they have experienced changed lives through jail house
religious conversions: First, most people will lie in order to escape death. Second, if
the claim of religious experience might bring perks or favors from staff or visitors,
many inmates would be expected to feign conversions. And third, in the case of Karla
Faye Tucker, when her lawyers and supporting pious individuals and groups pushed
Governor George W. Bush to grant Tucker executive clemency, those opposed argued
that her claim of faith was a scam carefully orchestrated to avoid execution: This is
the common dispute against granting clemency based upon the religious conversion
and redeemed life assertion.
It is certain that those who knew the facts related to Tucker's capital crime,
whether correctional professionals or citizens, would have some doubt about the
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