Comments on: A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill http://calitreview.com/3076 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Smith http://calitreview.com/3076/comment-page-1#comment-51612 John Smith Tue, 19 May 2009 17:43:53 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=3076#comment-51612 Why do you refer to the white participant in the brutal murder as "white boy" but the blacks are described as "black youths"? As someone who grew up in a largely black neighborhood, "white boy" hits my ear much like an epithet. Tom Wolfe should write a new book about this clown Cahill. He'd have much to work with. Why do you refer to the white participant in the brutal murder as “white boy” but the blacks are described as “black youths”? As someone who grew up in a largely black neighborhood, “white boy” hits my ear much like an epithet. Tom Wolfe should write a new book about this clown Cahill. He’d have much to work with.

]]> By: John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/3076/comment-page-1#comment-49656 John R. Guthrie Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:11:19 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=3076#comment-49656 Hi David Lida-- I found your interesting and well-written review to certainly be cause for reflection. "But does any of it qualify (Dominique Green)for sainthood?" Certainly the pathos of Green's story is expressed vividly by the facts alone, no canonization necessary. Perhaps Green was a person who simply functioned better in the highly structured environment of prison. To have kept him confined for life would have been fully adequate. It certainly,though, would not have provided as much impetus for the prosecutor's career. Hi David Lida–

I found your interesting and well-written review to certainly be cause for reflection.
“But does any of it qualify (Dominique Green)for sainthood?” Certainly the pathos of Green’s story is expressed vividly by the facts alone, no canonization necessary.
Perhaps Green was a person who simply functioned better in the highly structured environment of prison. To have kept him confined for life would have been fully adequate.
It certainly,though, would not have provided as much impetus for the prosecutor’s career.

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