Congregation of the Condemned: Voices Against the Death Penalty - Softcover

Dicks, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879759704 ISBN 13: 9780879759704

Verlag: Prometheus Books, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Editor Shirley Dicks's son Jeff was involved in a robbery attempt that resulted in the death of a storekeeper. A bungled defense led to his conviction for murder; he has been on death row since 1979. Dicks has become bitterly aware that justice in America is dealt out not blindly, but selectively. "People have been sentenced to death not because they have been found to be uncontrollably violent but because they were hopelessly poor. . . .They are the losers in an arbitrary lottery. You won't find a wealthy person on death row. A system like this does not enhance respect for human life; it cheapens and degrades it."

Congregation of the Condemned features writings by inmates, members of victims' families, legal and medical experts, religious and political figures, actors, and journalists, as well as opinions from such organizations as the ACLU and the NAACP. Contributors include Senator Edward Kennedy, Mike Farrell, Mario Cuomo, Hugo Bedau, Tom Wicker, Peter Gabriel, Watt Espy, Coretta Scott King, and many others.

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Shirley Dicks is the author of Death Row: Interviews with Opponents of Capital Punishment. She continues to work for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Prometheus Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0879759704
• ISBN 13: 9780879759704
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
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