Executed On A Technicality: Lethal Injustice On America's Death Row - Couverture rigide

Dow, David R.

 
9780807044209: Executed On A Technicality: Lethal Injustice On America's Death Row
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ISBN 10 : 0807044202 ISBN 13 : 9780807044209
Editeur : Beacon Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Dow David R

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Revue de presse

An honorably dispassionate and logical broadside against a shameful practice.
—Kirkus Reviews

"Dow reveals the dirty little secret of American death-penalty litigation: procedure trumps innocence . . . [His book] is insightful and full of the kinds of revelations that may lead readers to reconsider their stand on the death penalty."—Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune

"Dow's book leaves all else behind. It is powerful, direct, informative, and told in compelling human terms. He makes us see that the issue is not sentiment or retribution or even innocence. It is justice."—Anthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist for the New York Times

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. Regularly quoted in publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dow lives in Houston, Texas.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
Beacon Pr
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807044202
ISBN 13 
9780807044209
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
238
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780807044193: Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row

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ISBN 10 :  0807044199 ISBN 13 :  9780807044193
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2006
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