The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions - Rilegato

Prejean, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0679440569 ISBN 13: 9780679440567

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2004

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The best-selling author of Dead Man Walking and an ardent spokesperson on the issue of capital punishment raises profound constitutional questions about the legality of the death penalty and reveals how race, poverty, publicity, and prosecutorial ambition can determine who lives and dies after a murder conviction. 75,000 first printing.

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Advance praise for The Death of Innocents

“Once again, Sister Helen Prejean has brought her fierce intelligence, critical eye and moral passion to the subject of the death penalty. The Death of Innocents is also a detective story about the flawed ways of justice in America. Sister Helen’s voice has never been more pained, more insistent–or more worthy of our attention.”
–Jeffrey Toobin

“The Death of Innocents tells us with intellect, wisdom, and passion an awful truth about the administration of capital punishment in America that we won’t or don’t want to believe–procedure arbitrarily trumps substance, maddening incompetence undermines best intentions, racism shames everyone, and innocents are executed.”
–Barry Scheck

“In Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean helped us face the questions of whether it is morally right for governments to kill the guilty. In The Death of Innocents, she ups the ante of moral reckoning: In a hopelessly flawed system of justice, what if we’re killing innocent people along with the guilty? This important and well-written book is a deeply personal, compassionate, searingly honest eyewitness account of the death penalty in America. If you are not outraged by the sheer inhumanity and unfairness of state-sanctioned killing after reading this book, it might be time for you to run for governor of Texas.”
–Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon

“The Death of Innocents points out the flaws of the system that exist not only in Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia, but in all death penalty states. Abolition will be a reality someday, thanks to the efforts and works of Sister Helen Prejean.”
—George H. Ryan, former Governor of Illinois

“Sister Helen Prejean remains the preeminent witness to our most persistent barbarism. Her eloquent testimony on behalf of the condemned and the wrongly convicted–and the example of her fellowship–can inspire all Americans to find a better way.”
–Ted Conover

“Once more Sister Helen enables us to connect on a deeply human level with those on death row. But in The Death of Innocents she also explains the seismic change in Catholic teaching on the death penalty. Following Pope John Paul’s lead, Catholics everywhere now work for the abolition of this evil.”
–Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Detroit

“Sister Helen Prejean has done it again–she has written a powerful and poignant book about those whose lives are taken wrongly by our system of criminal justice.”
–Cornel West

L'autore

Sister Helen Prejean travels extensively, giving, on average, 140 lectures a year, seeking to ignite public discourse on the death penalty. She has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight, 60 Minutes, Oprah, NPR, and an NBC special series on capital punishment. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille and lives in Louisiana.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0679440569
• ISBN 13: 9780679440567
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 310