Eliza Steelwater
 I
was born and raised in New Orleans--a past I talk about in Chapter
6 of The Hangman’s Knot. My quest to make sense of
the death penalty began after I received a four-year Alumni Federation
fellowship to study at Louisiana State University. A doctoral degree
and fifteen years of research, writing, and speaking followed, culminating
in The Hangman’s Knot. I now live in Bloomington, Indiana,
with my husband.
The book’s title reflects my conclusion: America’s
use of capital punishment is a deadly tangle whose strands reach
deep into our nation’s history.
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