First review in for the paperback of Killing Time: One Man’s Race to Stop an Execution by David R Dow:

‘This modern-day Mockingbird describes a world of corrupt and politicised judges, negligent attorneys and Man’s inhumanity to Man … intimate touches make for a book that is powerful yet not worthy, poignant but not sentimental. With his spare writing and fast-moving narrative, [Dow] also managed to master suspense… [Killing Time] combines the moral philosophy and drama of death row practice with the personal reality of what judicial killing does to the people swept up in the system… [it] left me cherishing my family, colleagues and values just that little bit more.’ Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, in the Times