Memoir of Rev. Carroll Picket, who spent 15 years as a death house chaplain in the Texas Prison system.

An eloquent, unflinching look at capital punishment. In Within These Walls the reader meets the contrite, the angry, the resigned and even a few who might have been innocent and follows them to their death in the execution chamber. With 3,500 people on death row the subject is one of considerable debate. Within These Walls is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader into the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his observations not only about capital punishment, but also about the dark world of prison society.