Executed On A Technicality: Lethal Injustice On America's Death Row

Dow, R., David; David R. Dow

ISBN 10: 0807044202 / ISBN 13: 9780807044209

Published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2005

About this Item

238 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Executed On A Technicality: Lethal Injustice On America's Death Row
• Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807044202
• ISBN 13: 9780807044209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Isaac Tobin (Jacket Design); Steven Puetzer/Photonica (Jacket Photo)
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Criminology & Criminal Just, Law Enf, Forensic Sci
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Law, Jurisprudence, Legal Studies

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Synopsis

A Texas lawyer who once supported the death penalty shares his change of heart on the subject, presenting stories of real-life death row inmates who were abused by the justice system, coerced into confessing crimes, represented by incompetent lawyers, and subjected to backward judges. 15,000 first printing.

About the Author

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence Network and has represented more than thirty death row inmates. Regularly quoted in publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dow is coeditor of Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime. He lives in Houston, Texas.