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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453945003321

Titolo

Machinery of death : the reality of America's death penalty regime / / edited by David R. Dow and Mark Dow ; with a foreword by Christopher Hitchens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-93266-1

0-203-95198-0

1-135-32632-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DowDavid R

DowMark

Disciplina

364.66/0973

Soggetti

Capital punishment - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1994 by St. Jerome Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword: Slouching toward Abolition; Introduction: The Problem of ""Innocence""; I. The Reality of the Regime; 1 How the Death Penalty Really Works; 2 The Execution of Ivon Ray Stanley; II. Legacies of Lynching; 3 Discrimination, Death, and Denial: Race and the Death Penalty; 4 The Judge as Lynch Mob; 5 ""From My Vantage-Disadvantage Point"": Samuel B. Johnson in the New South; III. Inevitability and Innocence; 6 Jousting with the Juggernaut; 7 The Politics of Finality and the Execution of the Innocent: The Case of Gary Graham

8 Innocence Lost9 Chance and the Exoneration of Anthony Porter; IV. Inside the Walls; 10 The Stopping Point: Interview with a Tie-Down Officer; 11 ""The Line between Us and Them"": Interview with Warden Donald Cabana; V. Lives Intertwined; 12 Is the Death Penalty Good for Women?; 13 An Eagle Soars: The Legacy of Mr. Smile; 14 In Memory of Andrew Lee Jones; 15 Representing Robert Sawyer; VI. Toward Abolition; 16 Killing the Death Penalty with Kindness; 17 Speaking Out against the Execution of Timothy McVeigh; 18 Amazing Grace: Reflections on Justice, Survival, and Healing; Biographies; Index



Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.