Joseph B.
Ingle
Ingle
About the Book This is a remarkable book. It chronicles the 25-year journey of Philip Workman through what U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun termed "the machinery of death"". It is the most detailed, intimate and complete look at a death row prisoner that I have encountered. The story is told through Ingle's eyes as Workman's pastor; the perspective of another condemned prisoner; and courtesy of the Tennessee Public Records Act, the viewpoint of the state officials who colluded to see that Workman was executed despite MORE THAN AMPLE EVIDENCE tht he did not murder the police officer who he was convicted of killing. A memoir such as this is wrenching for it raises fundamentl quesions about our moral fabric as a nation. What does it mean to kill people, in our names, who do not kill people and are not eligible for th death penalty? This and other questions are addressed in the book as the reader descends with Philip Workman into the Inferno. It is a journey, like Dante's in the original Inferno, that will leave your soul transformed. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking |
About the Author
Joe Ingle is a United Church of Christ minister who works with the condemned. He, his
wife Becca, and their two dogs live in Scottsboro, a farming community of Nashville.
They raise blueberries on their farm.
Joe Ingle is a United Church of Christ minister who works with the condemned. He, his
wife Becca, and their two dogs live in Scottsboro, a farming community of Nashville.
They raise blueberries on their farm.
Joseph B Ingle's Books Are Published by Westview, Inc. THE INFERNO ISBN 978-1-937763-25-1 8.5x11, 189 Pages $17.50 Buy Now |