13 ways of looking at the death penalty / Mario Marazziti ; afterword by Paul Elie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marazziti, Mario, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

239 pages ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Thirteen ways of looking at the death penalty

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2015]

Summary:

"Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of "justice" that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States--along with countries notorious for human rights abuse--remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Facts and figures

Texas, capital of the death penalty

Sant'Egidio and the birth of an international movement

Timeline: from death to life

Some thoughts on the origins and abolition of the death penalty

Voices in the silence

Curtis McCarty- a friend off death row

Life row

Between life and death: Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

The UN resolution: getting to "no"

The innocents

Thirteen ways to live without the death penalty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238).

ISBN:

1609805674

9781609805678

OCLC:

894816584

Publisher Number:

99963619877