Machinery of Death
The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 10. May 2002
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Hardback
288 pages
978-0-415-93266-0 (ISBN)
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-93266-0 (9780415932660)
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Persons
David R. Dow is George Butler Research Professor of Law at the University of Houston. Since 1988, he has represented more than twenty-five death row inmates. Mark Dow is a Brooklyn based freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Progressive, The Miami Herald, The Boston Herald, and The Texas Observer.Christopher Hitchens is a best-selling author and a regular columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair.
Content
Foreword Slouching Towards Abolition Christopher Hitchens Introduction The Problem of "Innocence" David R. Dow 1. Part One: Reality of the Regime 1. How the Death Penalty Works David R. Dow 2. The Execution of Ivor Ray Stanley David R. Dow Part Two: Legacies of Lynching 3. Discrimination, Death and Denial: Race and the Death Penalty Stephen B. Bright 4. The Judge as Lynch Mob Ken Silverstein 5. "From My Vantage-Disadvantage Point": Samuel B. Johnson in the New South Mark Dow Part Three: Inevitability and Innocence 6. Jousting with the Juggernaut Andrew Hammel 7. The Politics of Finality and the Execution of the Innocent: The Case of Gary Graham Dick Burr and Mandy Welch 8. Innocence Lost Bob Burtman 9. Chance and the Exoneration on Anthony Porter Shawn Armbrust Part Four: Inside the Walls 10. The Stopping Point: Interview with a Tie-Down Officer Stacy Abramson and David Isay 11. "The Line Between Us and Them": Interview with a Warden Mark Dow 12. The Death Penalty as Disgrace: How One Man's Life and Death Reveal the Failings of Our Society Phyllis Crocker 13. An Eagle Soars: The Legacy of Mr. Smile Cecile C. Guin 14. In Memory of Anthony Lee Jones Sarah Ottinger 15. Representing Robert Sawyer Sarah Ottinger Part Five: Towards Abolition 16. Killing the Death Penalty with Kindness Clive Stafford-Smith 17. Speaking Out Against the Execution of McVeigh Bud Welch 18. Reflections on Justice, Survival and Healing Renny Cushing