Is there more to a man than the worst thing he has ever done In his raw and unflinching memoir, Waiting to Die: One Mans Journey on Death Row, Feltus Taylor, Jr., a young man from Louisiana, recounts the circumstances shaped by early trauma, instabi...Loe edasi...
How does a man end up on Death Row? What is it like to spend years waiting to die? In his raw and poignant memoir, Waiting to Die: One Mans Journey on Death Row, Feltus Taylor, Jr., who was executed in Louisiana for murder, delves into his lifes tr...Loe edasi...
Soon to be an ITV drama starring Lucy Boynton, A Cruel Love is the definitive story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain. Previously published as A Fine Day for a Hanging.A forensically researched book that casts a haunting new li...Loe edasi...
LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION Ten wrongful conviction cases Twenty-one innocent people Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim Mc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Sep-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803929156)
The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society presents a multidisciplinary overview of capital punishments influences, processes and outcomes across society. A global range of philosophers, social scientists, legal experts, political theoris...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040001073)
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures hum...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040001011)
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures hum...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700634491)
In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Courts controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700634491)
In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Courts controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031461330)
This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado wa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031461330)
This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado wa...Loe edasi...
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.A wonderful novel. Big ideas wrapped in a plot that moves like a freight train Stuart TurtonCompelling and complex, but still emotionally charged and devastating Helen FieldsA Clockwork Orange for th...Loe edasi...
Art generally imitates life. This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice involved in death sentencing. Many toys and dolls are illus...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Dec-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469670430)
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469670430)
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Dec-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9798890860088)
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469670423)
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469670423)
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9798890860071)
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Nomen Verlag, ISBN-13: 9783939816898)
Am 8. November 1939 um 21.20 Uhr explodiert eine Bombe im Münchener Bürgerbräukeller und reißt sieben Menschen in den Tod. Doch der, dem der Anschlag gilt, ist bereits früher als geplant aufgebrochen: Adolf Hitler. Noch am selben Abend wird der...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646015)
In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of event...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646015)
In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of event...Loe edasi...
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty Is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646084)
During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646084)
During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life i...Loe edasi...
( A) vivid, inquiring memoir... A properly soul-searching book - Tim Adams, ObserverAs one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - from detainees in Guant na...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9780786451838)
This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court through 2006, including more than 40 cases dec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: DANCE ALL DAY Musicvertriebs GmbH (Verlagsaccount), ISBN-13: 9783986778958)
The People of the Abyss Jack London - Hats off to Tangerine Press for re-publishing Call of the Wild author Jack Londons descent into Londons east end in the 1900s. Sent to cover Edward VIIs coronation, he went in search of the real story the stinki...Loe edasi...
