Executed on a Technicality

Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Civil Rights, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Penology, Criminal law
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Author: David R. Dow ISBN: 9780807044186
Publisher: Beacon Press Publication: May 1, 2005
Imprint: Beacon Press Language: English
Author: David R. Dow
ISBN: 9780807044186
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication: May 1, 2005
Imprint: Beacon Press
Language: English

When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.

It is these concrete accounts of the people Dow has known and represented that prove the death penalty is consistently unjust, and it's precisely this fundamental-and lethal-injustice, Dow argues, that should compel us to abandon the system altogether.

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When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.

It is these concrete accounts of the people Dow has known and represented that prove the death penalty is consistently unjust, and it's precisely this fundamental-and lethal-injustice, Dow argues, that should compel us to abandon the system altogether.

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