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Deathwork : defending the condemned / Michael Mello ; foreword by Mark E. Olive.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mello, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Defense (Criminal procedure)--United States.
- Defense (Criminal procedure).
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Mello, Michael.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Death work
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Michael Mello, a capital public defender, tells us the stories behind the cases that make up Deathwork, a moment-by-moment, behind-the-scenes look at the life and work of a death row lawyer and his clients.
- Contents:
- The law's machinery of death
- Death clerk
- The aging hit man : Anthony Antone
- Executing the insane : Alvin Ford
- The electric chair : Bob Sullivan
- Racism : James Adams and James Dupree Henry
- Executing juveniles : Paul Magill
- The poet : Stephen Todd Booker
- The landmark case : Jim Hitchcock
- My roommate : Joseph Green Brown
- The innocent man : Bennie Demps
- Missing in action : David Funchess
- Poorhouse justice : David Washington
- Killed by a legal technicality : Ronald Straight.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9446-X
- OCLC:
- 560185846
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