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Author Mello, Michael.

Title Deathwork : defending the condemned / Michael Mello ; foreword by Mark E. Olive.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  345.0772 M489Bm 2002    ---  Available
Description xxxix, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents The law's machinery of death -- Death clerk -- The aging hit man : Anthony Antone -- Executing the insane : Alvin Ford -- The electric chair : Bob Sullivan -- Racism : James Adams and James Dupree Henry -- Executing juveniles : Paul Magill -- The poet : Stephen Todd Booker -- The landmark case : Jim Hitchcock -- My roommate : Joseph Green Brown -- The innocent man : Bennie Demps -- Missing in action : David Funchess -- Poorhouse justice : David Washington -- Killed by a legal technicality : Ronald Straight.
Subject Mello, Michael.
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Defense (Criminal procedure)
Capital punishment.
Cover Title Death work : defending the condemned
ISBN 0816640882 (pbk : alk. paper)
0816640874 (hard cover : alk. paper)

 
    
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