Books

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Jun 01, 2009

BOOKS – The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption

The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption is a new book by Brian MacQuarrie that explores a par­en­t’s grief and sub­se­quent trans­for­ma­tion through the sto­ry of Robert Curley in Massachusetts. Curley’s 10-year-old son, Jeffrey, was a vic­tim of abduc­tion and mur­der in 1997. The mur­der shocked and out­raged the com­mu­ni­ty of East Cambridge out­side of Boston. MacQuarrie explores the father’s evo­lu­tion from grief to anger to activism against…

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Feb 20, 2009

BOOKS: No Winners Here Tonight

A new book, No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country’s Busiest Death Penalty States, by Ohio jour­nal­ist Andrew Welsh-Huggins, explores the his­to­ry of Ohio’s death penal­ty and rais­es ques­tions of fair­ness by exam­in­ing the state’s expe­ri­ence with cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. Citing his­tor­i­cal exam­ples, the author argues that the death penal­ty has been car­ried out in an arbi­trary fash­ion from its ear­li­est days and has fall­en short of the state’s…

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Feb 09, 2009

BOOKS: Thomas Cahill’s Story of Dominique Green”

Bestselling author Thomas Cahill has writ­ten a new book, A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green,” about his encounter and grad­ual under­stand­ing of the life of a Texas death row inmate named Dominique Green. Green, who was only 18 at the time of his arrest, was exe­cut­ed in 2004. Cahill’s sto­ry of Green’s life high­lights issues of race, pover­ty, and abuse, trac­ing details of his child­hood through his years on death row. Thomas Cahill is probably…

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Feb 05, 2009

BOOKS: The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia

A new book on inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ments in cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia, is now avail­able from Oxford University Press. Authors David Johnson, an expert on law and soci­ety in Asia, and Franklin Zimring, a senior author­i­ty on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, uti­lize their research to iden­ti­fy the crit­i­cal fac­tors affect­ing the future of the death penal­ty in Asia. They found that when an author­i­tar­i­an state…

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Jan 30, 2009

BOOKS: Life and Death Matters: Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment

Life and Death Matters: Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment is a new book that doc­u­ments author Robert Baldwin’s per­son­al jour­ney in con­fronting racism and the death penal­ty in the Deep South. Baldwin shares his evo­lu­tion in a con­ver­sa­tion­al, first-per­son style with a declared faith per­spec­tive. Written for peo­ple of all beliefs and back­grounds, he focus­es on the myths and mis­con­cep­tions about pris­ons and the death penal­ty dis­cov­ered through his…

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Jan 22, 2009

BOOKS: The Future of America’s Death Penalty

The Future of America’s Death Penalty, edit­ed by Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, James R. Acker, is a new book com­prised of orig­i­nal chap­ters authored by nation­al­ly dis­tin­guished schol­ars. It is an ambi­tious effort to iden­ti­fy the most crit­i­cal issues con­fronting the future of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the United States and the steps that must be tak­en to gath­er and ana­lyze the infor­ma­tion that will be nec­es­sary for informed pol­i­cy judg­ments. Contributors…

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Dec 04, 2008

BOOKS: Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications

A new book, Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications, fea­tures lead­ing schol­ars on the death penal­ty and their analy­sis of both the pro­mo­tion and demise of the pun­ish­ment around the world. It con­sid­ers the cur­rent efforts to restrict the death penal­ty with­in the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the African Commission, and the Commonwealth Caribbean. It also inves­ti­gates per­spec­tives and ques­tions for reten­tion­ist coun­tries with a focus on the United States,…

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Dec 03, 2008

BOOKS: Jesus on Death Row

Mark Osler, a for­mer fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor and present fac­ul­ty mem­ber at a con­ser­v­a­tive Christian law school in Texas, has written Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment.

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Oct 23, 2008

BOOKS: Streib’s Death Penalty in a Nutshell

Elon University School of Law’s Professor Victor Streib has released a new edi­tion of his book, Streib’s Death Penalty in a Nutshell. It cov­ers both the sub­stan­tive and the pro­ce­dur­al law of the death penal­ty and begins with argu­ments for and against the death penal­ty and an expla­na­tion of its basic con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenges and lim­i­ta­tions. Professor Streib cov­ers cap­i­tal crimes and defens­es, as well as tri­al lev­el and post tri­al pro­ce­dur­al issues. Other top­ics include race and gender…

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Oct 08, 2008

BOOKS: Execution’s Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned

In her new book, Execution’s Doorstep: The True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned, author Leslie Lytle pro­vides a com­pelling nar­ra­tive recount­ing the har­row­ing jour­neys of five inno­cent men who spent many years on death row. Through exten­sive research and inter­views, Lytle has suc­ceed­ed in reveal­ing the deep pain and suf­fer­ing that such injus­tice yields, putting a human face to the recur­ring prob­lem of inno­cence on death row. The book explores all aspects of the cas­es, from the…

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