Death Row America

This project began as an outgrowth of the "Hidden Interiors" project, starting with photographs of execution sites.

Evemtually I became consumed with the subject of capital punishment and began a long term personal project photographing convicted murders, families of victims, executioners, and prosecuters.

Most of this project has been financed by my commercial work, but a few magazines (Esquire, German Playboy, Newsweek and Time) have commisioned major features of the subject.

I started the project as a death penalty abolitionist, but have come to understand that the issues are not the abstract arguements I started with. The issues became far more complex and personal once you spend time with a parent whose child had been brutally murdered, an immate who's facing a fast approaching date with death, or a Warden who has been charged with executing a man he believes to be innocent. Nothing is so simple except that is final.

"Leathal Injection Chamber", (Executioner's view), Hunstville, TX