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SOURCES GENERAL INTERVIEWS Several people deserve special mention, having given profoundly of their time, their insights, and their emotions. Dr. Margaret Vandiver patiently, meticulously, and scrupulously relived a number of experiences that were, for her, very ghastly. Ray Marky and Michael Mello, two walking encyclopediae of capital jurisprudence, patiently instructed me on the law from opposing viewpoints. And Dr. Michael Radelet, Florida's leading academic authority on capital punishment, was unstinting with his time, and, despite his dark speciality, hilarious in his reminiscences. In addition, I conducted interviews with the following subjects for this book-and for the newspaper articles that were the seed of this book-during a period ranging from 1987 to 1994 (a handful of sources asked not to be identified): Ed Austin James David Barber Ronald Barnard Sr. Trudy Barnard Hugo Adam Bedau Faith Blake Irwin Block Sandy Bohrer William Bowers David Brierton Richard Burr Bill Caldwell Elmer Carroll Samantha Carver Susan Cary Ramsey Clark Robert Dillinger Leigh Dingerson Patrick Doherty Richard Dugger Martin Dyckman Arthur England Watt Espy Millard Farmer Reverend Tom Feamster Howell Ferguson Tom Fiedler Deborah Fins Howardene Garrett George Georgieff Steve Gettinger Robin Gibson .·.423.·. Steve Goldstein Arthur F. "Bud" Goode Jr. Mildred Goode Jonathan Gradess Bob Graham Richard Green Robert A. Harper Baya Harrison III Larry Hersch Andrea Hillyer Judy Hinson Scharlette Holdman Warren Holmes Steve Hull Reverend Joe Ingle Ralph Jacobs John Jeffries Jr. Bill Jent S. R. Johns Richard Jorandby David Kendall Gerald Kogan Michael Lambrix Robbie Larramore Richard Larsen Reverend Fred Lawrence James Lohman Doug McCray Morris McDonald Parker Lee McDonald Ellen McGarrahan Bob Macmaster Doug Magee Robert Mahler Bob Martinez Roy Mathews SOURCES Don Middlebrooks Earnie Miller Gene Miller Ellen Morphonios Polly Nelson Wendy Nelson Joe Nursey Hudson Olliff Jack Partain Eleanor Jackson Piel James Rinaman Gail Rowland Ann Rule Dianne Rust-Tierney Ron Sachs Henry Schwarzschild William Shade Sam Shepard Jr. Robert Shevin Laurie Sistrunk Neil Skene Jim Smith Carolyn Snurkowski Larry Spalding Bob Spangenberg Eugene Spellman Betty Steffens Alan Sundberg Ken Tucker Paula Tully Sue Tully Bill Vaughn Suzie Vaughn Alan Wagner Bill Wax Sandy Weinberg :.424 :. [44.211.28.92] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 09:18 GMT) SOURCES Bill White Turk Williams Art Wiedinger Dr. Ronald Wright ARCHIVES AND FILES This account of events, many of them unseen by me, was possible only through the very thorough reporting of Florida's newspapers. I immersed myself in a quarter century's worth of clippings from papers including the Tallahassee Democrat, the Gainesville Sun, the Orlando Sentinel , the St. Petersburg Evening Independent, and the Tampa Tribune. Key citations appear in the notes. More generally, I drew heavily on the work of three papers: First and foremost, the St. Petersburg Times, whose coverage of the death penalty has been unmatched in recent decades by any paper in America, to my knowledge. I must note the work of three Times writers in particular: Dudley Clendinin, who produced a series of remarkably intimate portraits of death row in the late 1970s, when it was still possible to get decent access to the place; Neil Skene, who comprehended and chronicled the intricacies of capital appeals better than any other reporter, anywhere, ever; and Martin Dyckman, Florida's preeminent editorial voice on this subject and many others. I was welcomed into the library of the Times with open arms, and found much of my book already there in the files. The Florida Times-Union was invaluable because it has been the only paper to assign a reporter full time to Florida State Prison, resulting in a great deal of continuity and intelligence in its accounts of prison life and executions. Andrea Rowand Dickerson, Bruce Krasnow , and Bruce Ritchie, through their Times-Union clippings, were like eyes and ears on the past to me. (In this regard, I should also mention Ron Word of the Associated Press.) And the files of The Miami Herald were not only a source but an inspiration; there, the reporting on this subject has often risen toward art in the hands ofsuch writers as Carl Hiaasen, Barry Bearak, and John Dorschner. Statistics regarding the number of prisoners on death row at any .·.425.·. SOURCES given time, the number of executions, and so forth were drawn from Death Row, USA, a periodic report of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the quarterly summaries of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. A number of sources opened their personal files to me. The most...