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Gianna Toboni is a documentary filmmaker and journalist and formerly a senior correspondent and producer for VICE News. Her book, The Volunteer, examines capital punishment through the unusual story of one death row inmate. In 2007, Scott Dozier was convicted of a pair of grisly murders and sent to Nevada’s death row. Rather than fighting that sentence, Dozier sought to expedite his execution. Yet despite his willingness to submit to that sentence, Dozier’s death date was delayed and stayed over and over again. Toboni examines why the state didn’t follow through on its own decision, and how America’s system of capital punishment is rife with black market dealings, disputed drugs, and botched executions, all at a cost of billions of dollars. Toboni argues that the system is failing those it intends to serve, and that includes those who are for the death penalty.