The death of innocents : an eyewitness account of wrongful executions /
Prejean, Helen.
The death of innocents : an eyewitness account of wrongful executions / Helen Prejean. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York, NY : Vintage Books, 2006. - xvi, 310 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Random House, c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dobie Gillis Williams -- Joseph O'Dell -- The machinery of death -- The death of innocence.
"Sister Helen Prejean traces the historical underpinnings of executions in this country, demonstrating that it is no accident that over 80 percent of executions in the past twenty-five years have been carried out in the former slave states. She also raises profound constitutional questions about an appeals system that decides most death cases on procedural grounds without ever examining their merits." "To date, well over one hundred wrongfully convicted persons have been freed from death row. If constitutional protections - due process, assistance of counsel, and equal justice under law - are truly being respected, how is it possible that these people were convicted in the first place? And how can we accept a system so rife with error?"--BOOK JACKET.
0679759484 9780679759485
Capital punishment--United States--Case studies.
HV 8699 .U5 P745 2005
The death of innocents : an eyewitness account of wrongful executions / Helen Prejean. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York, NY : Vintage Books, 2006. - xvi, 310 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Random House, c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dobie Gillis Williams -- Joseph O'Dell -- The machinery of death -- The death of innocence.
"Sister Helen Prejean traces the historical underpinnings of executions in this country, demonstrating that it is no accident that over 80 percent of executions in the past twenty-five years have been carried out in the former slave states. She also raises profound constitutional questions about an appeals system that decides most death cases on procedural grounds without ever examining their merits." "To date, well over one hundred wrongfully convicted persons have been freed from death row. If constitutional protections - due process, assistance of counsel, and equal justice under law - are truly being respected, how is it possible that these people were convicted in the first place? And how can we accept a system so rife with error?"--BOOK JACKET.
0679759484 9780679759485
Capital punishment--United States--Case studies.
HV 8699 .U5 P745 2005