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A descending spiral : exposing the death penalty in 12 essays / Marc Bookman.
Van Pelt Library KF9227.C2 B66 2021
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection KF9227.C2 B66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bookman, Marc (Lawyer), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Law and legislation--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Executed against the judgment of twelve jurors
- How crazy is too crazy to be executed?
- Racist and proud (and a judge)
- Sex-shamed to death
- The lawyer who drank his client to death
- When a kid kills his longtime abuser, Who's the victim?
- The confessions of innocent men
- A descending spiral
- Trials and errors
- Stranger in a strange land
- The n-word in the jury box
- Smoke
- Afterword.
- ISBN:
- 9781620976548
- 1620976544
- OCLC:
- 1191239863
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