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Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
True-life reporting on vicious criminals and the haphazard system that punishes them. Veteran journalists pull back the curtain of secrecy that surrounds Supreme Court deliberations but also reveal the crucial links between landmark capital punishment ...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. was at last gaining ground, 16 soldiers sat confined in basement cells on death row in the army's Fort Leavenworth maximum security prison in Kansas. Exactly eight were white and eight were black. All of the white soldiers were commuted. Not only were their lives spared, but they all were eventually released and returned to their families. They benefited from powerful Washington powerbrokers,...
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