Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row - Couverture souple

Dow, David

 
9780807044193: Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence Network and has represented more than thirty death row inmates.Regrularly quoted in publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dow is the coeditor of Machinery of Death: The Reality of of America's Death Penalty Regime. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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9780807044209: Executed On A Technicality: Lethal Injustice On America's Death Row

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0807044202 ISBN 13 :  9780807044209
Editeur : Beacon Pr, 2005
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