Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Life on death row. Teetering on the brink between life and death -- Descent into hell -- The visit -- "On tilt" by state design -- On death row: fade to black -- From an echo in darkness, a step into light -- Nightraiders meet rage -- Actin' like life's a ball game -- Legal outlaws: Bobby's battle for justice -- Manny's attempted murder -- A toxic shock -- Spirit death -- A return to death -- Days of pain--night of death -- Relatives decry "camp hell" -- B-block days and nightmares -- Part 2. Crime and punishment. Human waste camps -- Black march to death -- Slavery daze II -- Skeleton bay -- No law, no rights -- Two bites of the apple in dixie -- Blackmun bows out of the death game -- Jury of peers? -- Expert witness from hell -- The demand for death -- Already out of the game -- A bill that is a crime -- Part 3. Musings, memories, and prophecies. Musings on Malcolm -- Deadly d�ej�a vu -- Rodney wasn't the only one -- L.A. outlaw -- Absence of power -- Clinton guillotines Guinier -- Another side of Glory -- What, to a prisoner, is the Fourth of July? -- A house is not a home -- The lost generation -- Blues for Huey -- Philly daze: an impressionistic memoir.