Woman Condemned
Conversations From Death Row
Kelly Sons
Overview
A female killer is a rare beast. A curious monster who never fails to confuse and enrage us. When these cases emerge the media frenzy is instantaneous and long lasting . People are compelled to find out why. Popular culture teaches that females are soft and gentle nurturers. How could a woman commit such a horrific crime?
Upon hearing of the Aileen Wournous' of the world, intrigued readers are forced to glean knowledge from tabloid-like interviews or dry, clinical explanations of their troubled psyches.
Until now.
The crimes that put each woman on death row are only half of the story. Based on meticulous case research and long-standing, uniquely personal relationships with the inmates themselves, Woman Condemned: Conversations From Death Row presents the whole story from every angle, including intimate, revealing conversations with the convicts and in-depth interviews with witnesses and the families of their victims.
Being the crime reporter for my city newspaper I have ridden along on many police runs and sat in on numerous closed court proceedings and investigations .
I have witnessed so many women well on their way down this same path. I hear in their testimony the same death march as the women condemned.
I have hundreds of their letters. I have collected their poems, photos and dreams. I have accepted countless collect calls. I have visited many on death row and plan to see more. Some of these women consider me their closest and sometimes only friend and yet others can be vicious and taunting.
I enable them to circulate a newsletter across the country among themselves. I am well known in their circles and considered one of them.
Each letter, each phone call, each request for help and suggestion to go to hell has granted me a view inside the minds of these women that no one else is privy to.
I envision Woman Condemned: Conversations From Death Row as 300 pages and approximately 10 to 15 pages of photos.
Conversations From Death Row
Kelly Sons
Overview
A female killer is a rare beast. A curious monster who never fails to confuse and enrage us. When these cases emerge the media frenzy is instantaneous and long lasting . People are compelled to find out why. Popular culture teaches that females are soft and gentle nurturers. How could a woman commit such a horrific crime?
Upon hearing of the Aileen Wournous' of the world, intrigued readers are forced to glean knowledge from tabloid-like interviews or dry, clinical explanations of their troubled psyches.
Until now.
The crimes that put each woman on death row are only half of the story. Based on meticulous case research and long-standing, uniquely personal relationships with the inmates themselves, Woman Condemned: Conversations From Death Row presents the whole story from every angle, including intimate, revealing conversations with the convicts and in-depth interviews with witnesses and the families of their victims.
Being the crime reporter for my city newspaper I have ridden along on many police runs and sat in on numerous closed court proceedings and investigations .
I have witnessed so many women well on their way down this same path. I hear in their testimony the same death march as the women condemned.
I have hundreds of their letters. I have collected their poems, photos and dreams. I have accepted countless collect calls. I have visited many on death row and plan to see more. Some of these women consider me their closest and sometimes only friend and yet others can be vicious and taunting.
I enable them to circulate a newsletter across the country among themselves. I am well known in their circles and considered one of them.
Each letter, each phone call, each request for help and suggestion to go to hell has granted me a view inside the minds of these women that no one else is privy to.
I envision Woman Condemned: Conversations From Death Row as 300 pages and approximately 10 to 15 pages of photos.