Publication

2015 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781609805678
  • Open LibraryOL27172353M

Classifications

  • DDC364.66
  • LCCK5104 .M37 2015
  • LCCK5104.M37 2015
and 1 more
  • LCCK5104 .M368 2015

Alternate Titles

  • Thirteen ways of looking at the death penalty

Description

"Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of "justice" that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States--along with countries notorious for human rights abuse--remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind"--

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