
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Scott Turow
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- Editora: Penguin
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- Ano: 2016
- ISBN: 9781447254577
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America´s leading writer about the law takes a close, incisive look at one of society´s most vexing legal issues.
Scott 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 which investigated the administration…