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Laddar... Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Rowav David R. Dow
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Excellent look at the death penalty. Inside specific cases where the law did not work. Very hard to read. ( ) A persuasive argument against the death penalty, with details that will and should horrify people. It includes more details about the actual legal processes and precedents involved than the other book by him that I read, The Autobiography of an Execution. I'd give this one five stars but for the fact that it's very repetitive; the same facts get mentioned in several different chapters. I think perhaps a lot of what's in this book came out of articles Dow wrote previously, which would explain the repetition. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured- from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system. It is these concrete accounts of the people Dow has known and represented that prove the death penalty is consistently unjust, and it's precisely this fundamental-and lethal-injustice, Dow argues, that should compel us to abandon the system altogether. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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