Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (734 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559279516 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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A compelling exploration of one of society’s most vexing legal issues, written and read by bestselling author Scott TurowScott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In “real life,” as a respected criminal lawyer, he has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his recent service on the Illinois commission that investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan’s unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office.This gripping, clear-sighted, necessary examination
From Publishers Weekly Turow brings his experience as a practicing attorney to this thoughtful meditation on the nature, peril and efficacy of the death penalty. His tone is human and warm, but devoid of drama-he uses no character voices, save for a brief moment when he effectively emulates the words of an elderly Jewish man, who offers a warning about what can go wrong when a government exerts force against its own people. He also relates his visit to a "Super-Max" prison where the "worst of the worst" are kept; these passages are chilling, as are his clinical descriptions of the crimes committed by the death row inma
Killing Killers not me "Ultimate Punishment" was written soon after Scott Turow finished serving on a public commission to investigate the death penalty in Illinois. The book is part memoire, part reflection on capital punishment. It's rational and fairminded, but very short (barely 120 pages)and very light on legal analysis or social science.Its core rhetorical strategy is to consider a few actual death penalty cases that plunge the reader into the pain and moral ambiguities of capital punishment. On the one hand, th. Philip Scholz said This Just Proves So Much. This definitely proves that author Scott Turow's resume is even more impressive than I first realized. It's a true account of the man's work on a commission appointed by then Illinois Governor George Ryan to study the state's capital punishment system and recommend changes to fix its problems. With over two hundred capital convictions, twelve executions, and thirteen exonerations since 1976, things certainly needed to be looked at. For your reference, this commission was appointed in 1999. Not f. Barbara Frederick said Death Penalty Thoughtfully Examined. If you already know Scott Turow, you will want to read this book for that reason alone. He was involved in a big study of the death penalty in Illinois some years ago, and gives a very thoughtful analysis of all he learned through that process. I came away with the impression that he is much of the same opinion as myself: Not quite willing to say no death penalty ever, but willing to accept that it should be a rare and exceptional punishment. To me, it should be reserved for those who, like Gary