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Dead Run: The shocking story of Dennis Stockton and Life on Death Row in America Life on death row is not easy. It is tough mentally as well as physically. I never been there nor have I ever known someone there, but it is obvious that life on death row is no walk in the park to say the least. Joe Jackson and William Burke in Dead Run retell the stories of Dennis Stockton’s diaries written while on death row. Stockton was a prisoner awaiting his death sentence on death row at the Mecklenberg prison in Virginia. The main objective of this book is to give the reader an inside look at prison, specifically death row. Dennis Stockton gives this look from first hand experiences. Jackson and Burke’s (1999) purpose in writing this book was to show how that the people on death row are, despite what they have done to be placed there, still people. Jackson and Burke accomplish their goal by humanizing death row for the reader. This book is told through the perspective of one inmate, a career criminal, Dennis Stockton. Dead Run is about the time spent by Stockton on death row, and his fight for a retrial. Stockton received his death stockton, death, book, row, stockton’s, jackson, burke, life, through, prison, just, 1999, phone, inmates, diaries, dennis, very, time, reader, pg, people, last, baseball, around, about, times, say, perspective, now, new, mecklenberg, look, guards, guard, found, despite, day, been, wrong, written, value, told, talked, story, stayed, spent, side, sentence, said, run