Till Death Do Us Part: A Personal Look at the Death Penalty in America

At the age of sixteen, Marjan Cochez starts a correspondence with the American Daryl Wheatfall. A death row inmate, who has been on the death row of Texas since 1990. It is the start of a unique friendship. Eight years later, in 2002, she travels to Texas for the first time to visit Daryl. For her, it is an impressive confrontation with life on 'death row' and the executions. Her ignorance slowly makes way for insight into the injustice of the Texan legal system. Her commitment expands from a correspondence with Daryl to a general fight against the death penalty. In Till Death Do Us Part, Marjan Cochez takes the reader on her travels to Texas. It is a book about revenge and forgiveness, solidarity and misunderstanding, injustice and victory, frustration and faith. The friendship between Marjan and Daryl and their joint fight for justice form the common thread throughout this moving story. MARJAN COCHEZ studied criminology. In this book she places her personal experiences against the background of her knowledge of the American legal system and the history of the death penalty.