A new anti-drugs book, offers a rare glimpse of the...

A new anti-drugs book, offers a rare glimpse of the chilling end awaiting drug dealers.
Commissioned by the National Council Against Drug Abuse (NCADA), David's Diary is a year-long effort of Batey Ads, the Central Narcotics Bureau and the Prisons Department. The book tells the story of a 21-year-old addict whose flirtation with heroin turns him into a drug trafficker who ends up in the gallows. It captures the thoughts and fears of the condemned trafficker as he serves out his days on death row. Sent to jail with a death sentence, his world disintegrates, first with his girlfriend's family returning all his letters.
Even the prison chaplain is not much help as the terror of execution day dawns on him. A hood has to be placed over the head, he learns, to prevent the inmate from moving when the lever is pulled and the trapdoors open. Any movement could easily alter the position of the noose around his neck and cause him to die more slowly. The hood also protects the skin around the neck, reducing rope marks and burns in the area.
The book informs also that death-row inmates have to be weighed because the length of rope used to hang each inmate varies according to his or her weight.
The book is set to be launched in 169 secondary schools.