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Jan 24, 2008
BOOKS: “Crime and Justice: Abolishing the Death Penalty”
The Inter Press Service, with the assistance of the European Commission, has recently published “Crime and Justice: Abolishing the Death Penalty,” colle…
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Jan 14, 2008
BOOKS: “The Bitter Fruit of American Justice” and “I Shall Not Die”
Two new books address the death penalty from different perspectives: one analyzing the future of capital punishment, the other, by Billy Neal Moore, relates the experience of being on death row. Alan Clarke and Laurelyn Whitt examine two factors t…
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Jan 07, 2008
BOOKS: New Book Explores Death Penalty Myths
In The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths, professors Rudolph J. Gerber and John M. Johnson explore ten arguments used to support the death penalty and provide readers with current research and studies challenging these arguments. The authors show how “p…
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Oct 16, 2007
NEW BOOKS: “Blue Rage, Black Redemption”
“Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir” by Stanley Tookie Williams is a first-hand account of Williams’ personal journey from co-founding the notorious Crips gang to becoming a reformed prisoner and activist for youth from behind bars on C…
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Oct 01, 2007
NEW BOOK: “Jingle Jangle” Explores Innocence Case of Ray Krone
In “Jingle Jangle,” author Jim Rix tells the story of his cousin, Ray Krone, who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to die in 1992 for the murder of a bartender in Phoenix. The book details efforts to exonerate Krone, including the important role…