Todd C. Peppers Margaret A. Anderson Joseph M. Giarratano
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...
Todd C. Peppers Margaret A. Anderson Joseph M. Giarratano
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...