“Killing is wrong no matter who kills.”

The following books and materials are by authors associated in some way with MVFHR and are available through bookstores, online booksellers, and/or the authors or publishers, themselves.

Books

     Bosco, Antoinette.  Choosing Mercy:  A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty.  Orbis, 2001.

  Harrison, Dwight, and Susannah Sheffer.  In a Dark Time: A Prisoner's Struggle for Healing and Change.  Stone Lion Press:  Amherst, MA, 2005. 
Stone Lion Press

     Jackson, Jesse L., Sr; Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., and Bruce Shapiro.  Legal Lynching:  The Death Penalty and America's Future.  The New Press:  New York, 2001.

     Jenkins, Bill.  What to do When the Police Leave:  A Guide to the First Days of Traumatic Loss.  3rd. ed.  WBJ Press: Northfield, IL, 2002. 
www.willsworld.com

     Khamisa, Azim and Carl Goldman.  Azim's Bardo:  A Father's Journey from Murder to Forgiveness.  Rising Star Press, 1998.

     King, Rachel.  Don't Kill in Our Names:  Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty.  Rutgers:  New Jersey.  2003.

     Meeropol, Robert.  An Execution in the Family:  One Son's Journey.  St. Martin's Press, 2003.

     Pelke, Bill.  Journey of Hope ... From Violence to Healing.  XLibris, 2003.
www.xlibris.com

     Prejean, Sr. Helen.  Dead Man Walking:  An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States.  Vintage Books:  New York, 1993.

Ryan, Katy, ed.  Lockdown Prison Heart.  I-Universe:  New York.  2004.
www.iuniverse.com

Movies and Videos

Deadline, the Movie  - A documentary about the death penalty focusing on the issue nationally and on the moratorium and 2002 clemency hearings in Illinois.  Produced by Big Mouth Productions.  Shown on NBC's Dateline in its entirety in 2004.
www.deadlinethemovie.com

Too Flawed To Fix - An Emmy Award winning documentary examining the death penalty system in Illinois after thirteen people were exonerated for crimes they did not commit.  Features extensive interviews with MVFHR members.  Produced by Peace Productions, Chicago, IL.  Available in several formats and program lengths.
tooflawedtofix@hotmail.com

In addition, Dead Man Walking is now available as a movie, an opera, and, most recently, a play.