Dead Run: The Shocking Story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America

Dead Run: The Shocking Story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America by Jackson, Joe. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780802775993.

In June, 1983, Dennis Stockton entered Death Row in Virginias state penitentiary, accused of a murder he insisted he had not committed. For the next 12 years he remained there, during which time he helped plan the only successful mass escape from Death Row in our history (though he ultimately decided not to join the escapees), developed a career as a writer through a diary and newspaper columns, and continually proclaimed his innocence. His explosive diary entries - published in the (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot - about life on Death Row made him a marked man among prisoners and guards alike. Despite strong evidence of his innocence, however, Stockton was executed on September 27, 1995. Dead Run is the stunning story of Dennis Stocktons life in "the monster factory," his name for Death Row. Written by his editor at the Virginian Pilot and the reporter who investigated his claims of innocence, it is a riveting true-life thriller and essential reading for anyone with an opinion on the death penalty.