Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain

by Todd C. Peppers, Russ Ford, Charles Peppers

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813949114
• ISBN13: 9780813949116
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up