skip to content
Ultimate punishment : a lawyer's reflections on dealing with the death penalty
ClosePreview this item

Ultimate punishment : a lawyer's reflections on dealing with the death penalty

Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:
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 of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Scott Turow
ISBN: 0374128731 9780374128739
OCLC Number: 52030296
Description: 164 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Preamble to the Report of the Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment, April 2002.
Responsibility: Scott Turow.
More information:

Abstract:

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 of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.