Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occasions of solemn and pious ritual to excuses for raucous entertainment, and finally to the modern era of private, bureaucratized, mechanized, and sanitized executions that are out of sight and out of mind. Conforming thus to modern sensibilities, state-sanctioned killing is somehow more acceptable to us than public hangings would have been, because we can imagine that the inmate's death is relatively painless, and not in violation of the Eighth...
Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occa...
On the evidence of "The Dead Alive, " Scott Turow writes in his foreword that Wilkie Collins might well be the first author of a legal thriller. Here is the lawyer out of sorts with his profession; the legal process gone awry; even a touch of romance to soften the rigors of the law. And here, too, recast as fiction, is the United States' first documented wrongful conviction case. Side by side with the novel, this book presents the real-life legal thriller Collins used as his model-the story of two brothers, Jesse and Stephen Boorn, sentenced to death in Vermont in 1819 for the murder of their...
On the evidence of "The Dead Alive, " Scott Turow writes in his foreword that Wilkie Collins might well be the first author of a legal thriller. Here ...
Editors Rob Warden and Steven Drizin leaders in the field of wrongful convictions have gathered articles about some of the most critical accounts of false confessions in the U.S. justice system from more than forty authors, including Sydney H. Schanberg, Christine Ellen Young, Alex Kotlowitz, and John Grisham. Many of the pieces originally appeared in leading magazines and newspapers, including the "New York Times, The Nation, the New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times."
By grouping the cases into categories including brainwashing, fabrication, mental fragility, police force, and...
Editors Rob Warden and Steven Drizin leaders in the field of wrongful convictions have gathered articles about some of the most critical accounts o...
