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Autore |
Mello Michael |
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Titolo |
Dead Wrong : A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment / / Michael A. Mello ; with a foreword by David Von Drehle |
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Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
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9786613470485 |
9781283470483 |
1283470489 |
9780299153434 |
0299153436 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (412 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Capital punishment - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Winner of the 1998 Award for Excellence in Indexing, American Society of Indexers and H. W. Wilson Company |
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