Death Row Letters: Correspondence with Donald Ray Wallace, Jr.

by Charles Leslie

In the year 2000 the author, a professor of anthropology, struck up an acquaintance with a prisoner on death row in Indiana. The inmate, Donald Ray Wallace, Jr., bears a vital resemblance to Dostoyevsky's fictional protagonist in Crime and Punishment. Like Rashkolnikov, Wallace undergoes a spiritual journey from crime to redemption. But Wallace, unlike Rashkolnikov, is slated for death. Whether Wallace had an unidentified accomplice in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490839
• ISBN13: 9781611490831
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 236 Pages