November 11, 2005

'Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Jim and Ann Fowler's lives were forever altered by a triple murder that touched their family, murder committed by their son Mark. Convicted with an accomplice, he was executed after 15 years on Oklahoma's Death Row.

Part of a group often ignored, their experiences are detailed in Susan F. Sharp's Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused (Rutgers University Press). The University of Oklahoma sociologist interviewed 68 people with close ties to loved

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