The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice Among the Worst of the Worst
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Based on decades of interviews with death row inmates and guards around the country, an expert on the death penalty offers a plan for making the punishment more closely fit the crime.
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- 2013-11-19
- 320 pages
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- St. Martin's Press
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