Live From Death Row

Terry Gross talks to David Dow, a lawyer who's spent 20 years defending death row inmates. Virtually all of these guys have committed horrendous crimes. But Dow is working in the penalty phase of the trial, and, for the most part, isn't trying to exonerate them--he's trying to keep the state from killing them. He loses a lot.

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