Description: With public opinion polls showing opposition to the death penalty at its highest level in twenty years, this timely book by two of America's most important civil rights leaders and the Nation's criminal justice reporter makes a passionate and persuasive case against capital punishment. Combining a powerful moral argument with recent, overwhelming evidence of systematic legal error and widespread racial bias in death penalty cases, Legal Lynching directly attacks the basic claims of those―including our new president―who continue to insist on execution as a punitive solution for an increasing number of crimes. With the abolition of the death penalty in South Africa, the United States has become the last industrialized democracy to persist in state-sponsored execution.Grounded in stories of those who were unjustly convicted and left to languish on death row, Legal Lynching is a moving, human book by America's leading death penalty abolitionists.
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Book Title: Legal Lynching : the Death Penalty and America's Future
Number of Pages: 174 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2001
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Political Science
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Jesse Jackson, Bruce Shapiro
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
