Ultimate Punishment
Publisher: Picador
Published: February 6, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780330426886
Subjects: Capital punishment; USA; Sociology
First sentence: ON FEBRUARY 3, 1984, a young woman named Michelle Thompson and a male friend, Rene Valentine, were forced at gunpoint from the car they'd just entered in a parking lot outside D. Laney's, a nightclub in Gurnee, Illinois, north of Chicago.