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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Foreword 10 1. Introduction and Overview 16 2. The Fraternity of Death 29 3. Facing the Death Penalty 40 4. Juveniles' Attitudes Toward Their Impending Executions 51 5. Burning at the Wire: The Execution of John Evans 73 6. Another Attorney for Life 94 7. Representing the Death Row Inmate: The Ethics of Advocacy, Collateral Style 105 8. Ministering to the Condemned: A Case Study 125 9. Coping with Death: Families of the Terminally Ill, Homicide Victims, and Condemned Prisoners 136 10. Rituals of Death: Capital Punishment and Human Sacrifice 152 11. The Death Penalty and Anthropology 169 12. Working the Dead 182 13. How to Argue About the Death Penalty 191 14. The Pains of Life 206 15. The Isolation of Death Row 211 16. An Inhumane Way of Death 216 About the Authors 220 Index 224 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:1990,ISBN:9781439907801,Language:English,OCLC:711000186 "These essays...show us the human and inhuman realities of capital punishment through the eyes of the condemned and those who work with them. By focusing on those awaiting death, they present the awful truth behind the statistics in concrete, personal terms." —William J. Bow

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Author

Radelet, Michael L

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780877227212

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Social_sciences