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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958618803321

Autore

Mello Michael

Titolo

Dead Wrong : A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment / / Michael A. Mello ; with a foreword by David Von Drehle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997

ISBN

9786613470485

9781283470483

1283470489

9780299153434

0299153436

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Disciplina

345.73/0773

Soggetti

Capital punishment - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by David Von Drehle -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Deathwatch: A Sort of Introduction -- 2. Judge Robert S. Vance: The Hanging Judge Who Hated Capital Punishment -- 3. Florida Fragments: A Montage of a Lawyer's Life of Death -- 4. On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law -- 5. Why I Did Deathwork: Pressing the Law to Keep Its Promises -- 6. "On Strike, Shut It Down" : An 'Apologia' for Conscientious Abstention from the Machinery of Death -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 1998 Award for Excellence in Indexing, American Society of Indexers and H. W. Wilson Company