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In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death?
That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American...
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I can't remember his name or his crime. What I remember is the nothingness. No family members, no friends, no comfort. Maybe he didn't want them to come, maybe they didn't care, maybe he didn't have any in the first place. It was just a prison official and two reporters, including me, looking through the glass at this man strapped fast to the gurney, needles in both arms, staring hard at the ceiling.
When the warden stepped forward and asked if he...
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Texas prosecutors are powerful: in cases where they seek capital punishment, the defendant is sentenced to death over ninety percent of the time. When management professor Hans Hansen joined Texas's newly formed death penalty defense team to rethink their approach, they faced almost insurmountable odds. Yet while Hansen was working with the office, they won seventy of seventy-one cases by changing the narrative for death penalty defense. To date,...
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Powerful, wry, witty essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman shows in a dozen witty, brilliant essays on cases involving drunken lawyering, prosecutorial misconduct, racist judges and jurors, and executing the innocent and the mentally ill, precious...
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"Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association" "Honorable Mention for the Clifford Geertz Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of Religion" "Honorable Mention for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize in Critical Anthropology" Arzoo Osanloo is associate professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice and the director of the Middle East Center at the University of Washington. She is the...
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