Duffy while he was warden at San Quentin. From the psychopathic Caryl Chessman, who managed to postpone his fate for twelve long years, to Leslie Gireth, who wanted to hear the haunting strains of "Clair de Lune" as he walked into the gas chamber, these ninety criminals were all human beings whose strengths and virtues as well as guilt are fully etched by the man who shared their last days. With warmth and compassion, and not without considerable humor, Clinton T. Duffy has, with Al Hirshberg, written a dramatic saga of life on Death Row that will haunt any reader."