Deathwork: Defending The Condemned

Legal cases are stories, and some of the most compelling—and the most disturbing—are those that take place on death row: the innocent man executed, juveniles and the mentally ill condemned to die, a smoking electric chair, a napping defense attorney, a senile hit man. These are the stories in which Michael Mello, as a capital public defender, played a crucial role, and they are the cases that make up Deathwor...