«This most necessary book, Ghost Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama's Death Row, contextualizes and places into historical context the work the organization Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty has done, and its evolution to expose and bring to the forefront the inhumanity that occurs within taking a life on death row. The amplification of voices from within the carceral state of Alabama in this archive of past writings are at once chilling, and yet—eye-opening. This living document that breathes from the blood of the dead and those soon to be gone, if one reads it carefully, reflects a judicial system that bases its morals or morality at the expense of humans. These human beings are and have been entangled in a carceral state in which checks and balances never favor the convicted, and the pathway to redemption and forgiveness often does not exist. It reminds me of the hypocrisy of change and forgiveness, and how killing a person eliminates any chance of either. Ghosts Over the Boiler may or may not change your position on the death penalty, but it will make you rethink everything you thought you knew in the taking of a life."—Randall Horton, author of {#289-128}: Poems, winner of the American Book Award

"This collection is one of the most important archives of the modern US death penalty, giving voice to the brilliant and dedicated men on Alabama's death row—to their essays, editorials, and poems; to their interviews, scanned documents, and letters; to their photographs, remembrances, and reflections. Beautifully and faithfully curated by Katie Owens-Murphy, this archive is a glorious tribute to the human spirit."—Bernard E. Harcourt, author of Critique and Praxis

"[Ghosts Over the Boiler] helps put a human face on capital punishment. This book traces the development of the death penalty abolition movement, the history of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, and the evolution of the capital punishment system in Alabama since 1989."—Andrew Baer, author of Beyond the Usual Beating: The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago»