The death of punishment
Subtitle: searching for justice among the worst of the worst
By: Robert Blecker
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781137278562
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Punishment
Description: Based on decades of interviews with death row inmates and guards around the country, an expert on the death penalty offers a plan for making the punishment more closely fit the crime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Man the measure. Killing the wrong people ; Playing the game ; Two sides to every question? ; Richer than the rules of law; title: Part 2. Voices from the inside. One raggedy lawyer ; Between right and wrong ; The living legend ; Under the influence ; Plate sin with gold ; Their crime/Our punishment; title: Part 3. Witness at an execution. Behind the glass ; One step removed ; Curtain time ; The privileged and the damned; title: Part 4. For whom the candles burned. Flip a switch ; But God spared Cain ; The man needs to die ; The nicest thing ; A one-man chair ; Dead right ; Whose voice? ; Why aren't you dead? ; Turning grey ; Six feet over ; Death watch ; Killing them softly ; Bearing witness ; The 13th juror; title: Part 5. Fighting for the finish. No word for it ; The Hershey bar ; In a perfect kingdom ; Everywhere elsewhere; title: Part 6. Forgiveness and redemption. I can look you in the eyes ; Nonsense on stilts; title: The chance to someday; title: A tramp abroad: Heaidelberg ; Right body, wrong person ; The ugly mirror.