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Title: Within These Walls
Subtitle: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain
Author: Carlton Stowers, Rev. Carroll Pickett
Narrator: Tom Pile
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-24-17
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:
Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity, Reverend Pickett ministered to ninety-five men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry -- a few who might even have been innocent. All of them found in Reverend Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as. This firsthand experience gave Reverend Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America. The result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society.

Members Reviews:
Eye opening
The author ''s career and his accounting of it is heartfelt and thought provoking. I have always supported capital punishment and still do. However, I see a broader picture of those impacted by or close to carrying out the process. I am grateful for the author's many years of service to those incarcerated and those who paid the ultimate price for their crimes.

A Rational Discussion of a Topic That Is Rarely Discussed Rationally
Most of what we read see or hear about crime and criminals is over sensationalized nonsense. Even the so called "worst of the worst" are often fairly ordinary human beings, some of whom did something really stupid once or twice in otherwise fairly ordinary lives. Others did nothing particularly bad, nothing evil, but could not afford a good attorney. Once in a while there are people who choose to be a menace to society, but not nearly as often as the media and politicians and prosecutors want you to think. For once, somebody writes about prisoners as if they are people, occasionally very bad people, more often moderately bad people who need to be encouraged, sometimes strongly, to make different choices, but are not monsters and boogeymen.
Read it if you think you know anything about the topic, and you may rethink much of what you thought you knew. Yes there are a few very bad people that are talked about in this book. That only makes the banality of the rest more amazing.

Fantastic
Touching and very insightful. I highly recommend it for an in depth look at the tdcj Huntsville unit and its operating procedures regarding the death penalty. A few contradictions i noticed with the Rev. Picketts views on the death penalty. But a very wonderful piece. I encourage anyone considering this book to read it. I am very touched by the work Rev. Pickett was able t accomplish for those lost souls.

Moving and Insightful
Certain stories can only be told from those people who actually experienced them. Rev. Pickett began his job as the chaplain to death row inmates who were hours away from execution with the mindset that capital punishment didn't really involve him. He didn't really take a part in it, and his job would be simple.