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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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Sr Helen Prejean has accompanied five men to execution since she began her work in 1982. She believes the last two, Dobie Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Dell in Virginia, were innocent, but their juries were blocked from seeing all the evidence and their defence teams were incompetent. 'The readers of this book will be the first "jury" with access to all the evidence the trail juries never saw', she says. The Death of Innocents shows how race, prosecutorial ambition, poverty and publicity determine who dies and who lives. Prejean raises profound constitutional questions about the legality of the death penalty.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #209007 in Books
- Published on: 2005-12-31
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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Sobering
Those who continually argue for the restoration of the gallows to this country ought to read this book. An important argument against the death penalty which this book brings to light is that apart from the unavoidable dangers of killing the innocent (which Sister Helen so well highlights in her writings), judicial killing is all too easily exploited by those in power for vote seeking purposes.
To quote the remarks made by a British QC concerning the case of Stefan Kiszko, one of our own country's notorious cases of miscarriage of justice: "...Thank God we no longer have the death penalty in this country". So read this book, and then give a silent prayer of thanks to the UK Parliamentarians who voted to do away with it.
