Dominique is Afro-American young man. He is 30 years old, now. When he was sentenced to death he was just 19.

His fate is the same of  many people like him, marked by a deep racial  prejudice. Today, actually, black people are just the 12% out of the population of United States. Nevertheless, they count up the 42% out of  the inmates in the American death rows.

Dominique was accused to have committed a murder during a robbery carried out by a group of young boys. Really, there was nobody who was able to witness his guilt. Anyway, he was captured with violence and then submitted by the police to an interrogation without any legal defence.

During the following trial, his court-appointed lawyer  acted with extreme incompetence, bringing in the documents which could attest his innocence out of due time. It often happens, indeed, that poor people like Dominique who cannot afford the costs to engage skilful lawyers, are forced to rely on inexperienced legal representatives.

Dominique�s story is a hard one. He was born in a very deprived family. As a child, he had to feel the pain coming from his parents� part. His mother, mentally ill, could not assure the necessary care due to a growing-up boy. He passed his childhood and teens among the forgotten suburbs of Huston, Texas. His friends were black and Hispanic poor boys just like him.

Any evidence demonstrating in a certain way his responsibility was introduced during the trial that sentenced him to death. Today Dominique is passing his days in the death row of Livingston, Texas. His execution is sorrowfully set on October 26^th 2004.