capital punishment

Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives. This book chronicles more than one hundred of these cases, starting in 1973. Cohen reveals how eyewitness error, jailhouse snitch testimony, racism, junk science, prosecutorial misconduct, and incompetent counsel have populated America's prisons with the innocent.

In August 1995, David Kaczynski's wife, Linda, asked him whether he thought his brother Ted was the Unabomber. David thought about it and as they pored over the Unabomber's most recent seventy-eight page manifesto, David began to think Linda was right. Wanting to prevent further violence, David made the agonizing decision to turn his brother over to the FBI. As David thought back to their childhood, he remembered Ted as a brilliant, yet troubled, mathematician and a loving older brother. But as Ted grew older he became more and more withdrawn with erratic behavior. He often sent angry letters to his family from his isolated cabin in rural Montana. After Ted's arrest, David worked hard to save his brother from the death penalty. David's highly personal memoir is a meditation on the possibilities for reconciliation and maintaining family bonds.

A collection of essays in which inmates at American prisons who were sentenced to death while still in their teens share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up in prison and how they feel about capital punishment.

Presents conflicting viewpoints regarding the methods, effect, and ethics of capital punishment.

In this anthology, authors examine and debate the persisting issues surrounding sentences of death.