13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty Contributor(s): Marazziti, Mario (Author), Elie, Paul (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1609805674 ISBN-13: 9781609805678 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Criminal Law - Sentencing - Social Science | Penology - Political Science | Human Rights |
Dewey: 364.66 |
LCCN: 2014043858 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.1" (0.65 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of "justice" that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States--along with countries notorious for human rights abuse--remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind. |