The book
Wendy Schmid - Eastwood
TWISTED TRUTH
ATHENA PRESS London Distributor: Gardeners
“I do not mind being
killed but I want the family of the victim and the world to know the
truth”
This is one of Richard's many similar statements that made me write
“TWISTED TRUTH” now available in the USA.
TWISTED TRUTH is the true story of the struggle for justice of an
innocent young man, who was condemned to death and finally executed by
the State of Texas with the consent of the former Governor of Texas,
George W. Bush.
The book can be ordered from any bookshop or from
www.amazon.co.uk or
www.amazon.com
ISBN number: 1-84401-148-8
Publisher: ATHENA PRESS London Distributor: Gardeners
After you read the book, please hand it on; I want Richards wish to
become true.
Wendy Schmid - Eastwood
Breitenacher 3
CH 8906 Bonstetten
Tel. ++41 1 700 34 18
Fax ++ 41 1 700 34 87
E-mail: w-j.schmid@bluewin.ch
Review by
Pen Press London
“On 22nd August 2000, Richard Wayne Jones’s life was snuffed out on a
gurney in Huntsville, Texas. It was another State execution. He’d been
on death row for fourteen years. Quick and fair? Not in the current US
legal climate, and certainly not in the post-conviction review system
prevailing in Texas today.
The author exchanged letters with the condemned man, then met him, and
so began a long and deep friendship between them which accompanied the
struggle for justice that Wendy, her husband, her friends and lawyers
embarked upon. The brutal closure of it all has prompted this searching
and at times harrowing denunciation of the legal morass surrounding
judicial murder in the USA. Richard’s letters, many of which are
reproduced here, are touching. His story, told in forthright and
convincing terms, will make you think again about the lex talionis –
demanding a life for a life.
‘Schmid-Eastwood tells a story that had to be told. /…/ this book
absolutely bangs it home. /…/ It is a document both of humanity and
inhumanity; a document of record. /…/ I am certainly no analyst of
evidence; but I am certain that Richard was innocent, and I defy anybody,
after reading this book, to sleep any easier.’
‘…an indictment of the cruelty of capital punishment, informed by first
hand experience /…/ The book has been excellently structured, starting
with Richard’s early life, then moving to details of the Livingstone
murder /his supposed crime), his apprehension, trial and sentencing. The
relentless to-and-froing of appeals is well documented, adding weight to
the author’s condemnation of the cat-and-mouse structure of the US
capital system. /…/ In passages of the book that could have ended up
cloying (e.g. the execution scene in particular) the author manages to
avoid sentimentality by writing in this down to earth manner. /…/ A
poignant story, well told.
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