Ultimate Punishment
Subtitle: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Publisher: Picador
Published: August 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780312423735
Subjects: Criminal Law - General; Social Science / Penology; Criminology; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; 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.