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A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays

By Marc Bookman
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By Marc Bookman
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Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists

As Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial rarely get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman shows in a dozen brilliant essays, the problems with capital punishment run far deeper than just bad representation. Exploring prosecutorial misconduct, racist judges and jurors, drunken lawyering, and executing the innocent and the mentally...

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Social SciencesLawCriminologyCriminal Law & ProcedurePenology & Correctional StudiesCapital PunishmentCapital Punishment