Scott Turow on the Death Penalty Story aired: Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Scott Turow is the author of renowned and bestselling courtroom dramas, such as "Presumed Innocent" and "Reversible Errors." The latter is about a death penalty case, which is interesting, because throughout his writing career Scott Turow has also been a practicing attorney who's been involved in, among other things, two major death penalty appeals.
In March 2000, he was chosen by then Illinois Governor George Ryan to serve on a blue ribbon commission looking into the death penalty. Governor Ryan had become alarmed at the growing number of reports of death row inmates who'd been wrongly convicted.
Scott Turow has chronicled his experiences with that commission, and his sometimes wrenching reflections on the death penalty, in his new, non-fiction book "Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyers Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty."
