Non-Fiction "A Saint on Death Row" So Much Shame and Sorrow End Capitol Punishment by Tomorrow

"A Saint on Death Row" is the story of Dominique Green.  Dominique was 18 at the time of his arrest in a fatal armed robbery in TX.  Out of the 4 arrested in the robbery, only Dominique was given a death sentence.  (The white accomplice was released without being charged).  This bio is of a remarkable young black man caught up in a pervasive system of oppression, abuse and injustice.  A societal system   culpable of fostering a cycle of criminality that feeds into a corrupt and brutally punitive legal system.  Author Thomas Cahill's book is pronouncedly persuasive arguing against the barbaric enforcement of the death penalty and the torturous use of solitary confinement.  Dominique's story blazons with America's racist oppression and injustice meted out in our legal system.  Cahill's intimate encounters, coverage of his case and revelatory insight into Dominique's humanity is so affecting and shaming it should serve to purge our nation of travesties in our legal system by immediately banning executions, life sentences without parole and inhumane practices of solitary confinements.  It is absolutely imperative to terminate the sentencing of youths to life in prison without parole.  Our criminal justice system has flaws that are untenable and mendable.  The moving narrative of Dominique's 12 years in prison from 18 until his execution at 30 demonstrates remorse, redemption and the travesty of cruelly tossing away the lives of people incarcerated.  Dominique's moving story is one of many.  We are deeply stirred told in Dominique's tempered voice and with the sensitive testaments from those who came to know him, including the victim's family and Desmond Tutu.  This individual story has the power that does not allow for society to turn aside.  We cannot consider ourselves a civilized society that fosters racism and chooses to carry out inhumane & unjust executions.  Reading about Dominique's life, knowing his fated outcome carries a pall of despair.  It weighs heavily upon us noting morality unearthed.  It's shameful society's blatant indifference to the childhood's of poor & neglected children.  We must confront & address the injustices that have been committed and continue to fester and cannot be justified as benefitting society.  There is no morality in keeping prisoners in solitary confinement and no humanity in putting people to death.  We are all guilty of dehumanizing ourselves by permitting these atrocities.