Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press 2001

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Harris, Duchess

Summary: Examines all aspects of capital punishment in the United States, and discusses the history behind the death penalty in the United States, plus varying opinions about the ethics of capital punishment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

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Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Fighting for life in the death-belt considers the controversial institution of capital punishment in America through the eyes of Stephen Bright, the nations's leading anti-death penalty lawyer. For twenty-five years Bright has defended death row inmates deep in the heart of the nations' death-belt - the Southeastern states where ninety percent of executions occur.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E.M. Productions 2005

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Dershowitz, Alan M.

Summary: The esteemed Harvard lawyer describes his career and the cases that have changed American jurisprudence throughout the past half century, discussing his early academic struggles, his clerking work for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and his role in many prominent cases.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013

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Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

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Summary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1997

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Sarat, Austin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2001

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Bookman, Marc

Summary: "Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021

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