Indhold: Facts and figures ; Texas, capital of the death penalty ; Sant'Egidio and the birth of an international movement ; Timeline: from death to life ; Some thoughts on the origins and abolition of the death penalty ; Voices in the silence ; Curtis McCarty - a friend off death row ; Life row ; Between life and death: Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity ; The UN resolution: getting to "no" ; The innocents ; Thirteen ways to live without the death penalty