Go Ahead and Shoot Me! and Other True Cases about Ordinary Criminals

Go Ahead and Shoot Me! is a collection of stories by former probation officer Doug Heckbert about real people who have been convicted of real crimes and who have been on probation, on parole, or in prison. The title story is about Sally, a woman who shot her husband upon his insistence and who, like many other subjects in the book, have come to see their offences as being pretty stupid. Some stories might be described as ordinary crimes and some are stunningly extraordinary, but all stories show the human side of criminals that Heckbert worked with and came to know, not just the nature of the crimes they committed.