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Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain
ISBN: 9780813949116 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty—now outlawed in Virginia—while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house during the final days and hours of their lives. In July 1990 he accidentally almost became the 245th person killed by Virginia’s electric chair as he comforted Ricky Boggs in his last moments, a vivid episode that opens this haunting book. Many chaplains get...
The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalt...
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124,22 zł |
Of Courtiers and Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges
ISBN: 9780813944593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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165,69 zł |
Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk
ISBN: 9780804753821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the hiring of the first Supreme Court law clerk by Associate Justice Horace Gray in the late 1880s, court observers and the general public have demonstrated a consistent fascination with law clerks and the influence--real or imagined--that they wield over judicial decisions. While initially each Supreme Court justice hired a single clerk, today's justices can hire up to four new law school graduates. The justices have taken advantage of this resource, and in modern times law clerks have been given greater job duties and more responsibility. The increased use of law clerks has spawned a...
Since the hiring of the first Supreme Court law clerk by Associate Justice Horace Gray in the late 1880s, court observers and the general public have ...
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A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780826521613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death." Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to...
There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Caroli...
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124,22 zł |
A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780826521606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death." Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to...
There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Caroli...
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586,66 zł |