A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty - Couverture souple

Peppers, Todd C.; Anderson, Margaret A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826521614 ISBN 13 : 9780826521613

Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 2017

Synopsis

There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death."

Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie's time as a death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she experienced the highs of helping exonerate the innocent and the lows of standing death watch in the death house with thirty-four condemned men.

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À propos de l'auteur

Todd C. Peppers, Fowler Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College and Visiting Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, is co-author of Anatomy of an Execution: The Life and Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826521614
• ISBN 13: 9780826521613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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