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Crossing the River Styx : The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain by Todd C. Peppers, Russ Ford and Charles Peppers (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813949114
ISBN-13
9780813949116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19058372468

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Crossing the River Styx : the Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain
Subject
Death, Grief, Bereavement, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Todd C. Peppers, Russ Ford, Charles Peppers
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-026297
Reviews
Former prison chaplain Russ Ford offers the reader a harrowing looking inside Virginia's death row. Anyone who wants to understand the moral and spiritual carnage of capital punishment needs to read this book., Russ Ford's journey is soul-stirring. It moved me to tears. I assume that's what is hoped for in a Minister, but it too rarely works out that way. As a Death Row Chaplain, Ford's ministry is to the hopeless and the misbegotten, the condemned, those written off by the rest of us. Unlike some, Ford doesn't phone it in. He treats those in his care, "the worst of the worst," as our system would have it, with respect; he honors their humanity and grants them their dignity. And in the process, he ignites souls long dormant. In Crossing the River Styx, he opens the door to Hell and invites you in. I urge you to summon the courage to join him.
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220902
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
259/.5092 B
Table Of Content
Author's Note Introduction 1. Russ Ford 2. Mac 3. Henry Tucker 4. Marjorie Lee Bailey 5. Morris Odell Mason 6. Michael Marnell Smith, Syvasky Poyner, and Mickey Wayne Davidson 7. Earl Washington and Joseph Payne 8. Alton Waye 9. Jerry Givens 10. Wilbert Lee Evans 11. Albert Clozza 12. Derick Lynn Peterson 13. Willie Leroy Jones 14. Timothy Bunch 15. Andrew Chabrol 16. Willie Lloyd Turner 17. Joseph Savino 18. Coleman Gray 19. The Bitter and the Good
Synopsis
The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia?s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty?now outlawed in Virginia?while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house during the final days and hours of their lives. In July 1990 he accidentally almost became the 245th person killed by Virginia?s electric chair as he comforted Ricky Boggs in his last moments, a vivid episode that opens this haunting book. Many chaplains get to know the condemned men only in these final moments. Ford, however, spent years working with the men of Virginia?s death row, forging close bonds with the condemned and developing a nuanced understanding of their crimes, their early struggles, and their challenges behind bars. His unusual ministry makes this memoir a unique and compelling read, a moving and unflinching portrait of Virginia?s death row inmates. Revealing the cruelties of the state-sanctioned violence that has until recently prevailed in our backyard, Crossing the River Styx serves as a cautionary tale for those who still support capital punishment., The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia's death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty--now outlawed in Virginia--while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house during the final days and hours of their lives. In July 1990 he accidentally almost became the 245th person killed by Virginia's electric chair as he comforted Ricky Boggs in his last moments, a vivid episode that opens this haunting book. Many chaplains get to know the condemned men only in these final moments. Ford, however, spent years working with the men of Virginia's death row, forging close bonds with the condemned and developing a nuanced understanding of their crimes, their early struggles, and their challenges behind bars. His unusual ministry makes this memoir a unique and compelling read, a moving and unflinching portrait of Virginia's death row inmates. Revealing the cruelties of the state-sanctioned violence that has until recently prevailed in our backyard, Crossing the River Styx serves as a cautionary tale for those who still support capital punishment.
LC Classification Number
HV8867.F57 2022