Death work
Subtitle: a study of the modern execution process
By: Robert Johnson.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Contemporary issues in crime and justice series
Publisher: West/Wadsworth; Wadsworth Pub. Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Executions and executioners -- United States.; Death row -- United States.; Executions and executioners -- History.
Description: This much anticipated second edition of Robert Johnson's Death Work offers a frank and unsettling look at the consequences of the death penalty in the United States today. The author takes readers on a compelling step-by-step journey through the American execution process including interviews with prisoners who have spent years on death row, prison staff who guard the condemned, and the men who act as executioners.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.