Executed on a technicality : lethal injustice on America's death row

The Resource Executed on a technicality : lethal injustice on America's death row
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Executed on a technicality : lethal injustice on America's death row
Title remainder
lethal injustice on America's death row
Statement of responsibility
David R. Dow
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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, 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. Dow"s eye-opening book is captivating because he allows the men, and their cases, to speak for themselves. For instance, one inmate"s lawyer literally slept through his trial; another inmate was executed because the jury never heard from two eyewitnesses who swore he was no the murderer; and yet another inmate was allowed to represent himself at trial despite the fact that his mental imbalance, which included attempts to issue a subpoena to Jesus Christ, was evident. 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
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
345.73/0773
Index
index present
LC call number
KF9227.C2
LC item number
D69 2005
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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