Death of Innocents An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

Name: Death of Innocents An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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ISBN: 9780679759485

ISBN-10: 0679759484

ISBN-13: 9780679759485

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Authors: Helen Prejean

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From the author of the national bestseller "Dead Man Walking "comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we're executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O'Dell. Both were convicted of murder on flimsy evidence (O'Dell's principal accuser was a jailhouse informant who later recanted his testimony). Both were executed in spite of numerous appeals. Sister Helen Prejean watched both of them die. As she recounts these men's cases and takes us through their terrible last moments, Prejean brilliantly dismantles the legal and religious…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.95" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Dobie Gillis Williams



Joseph O'Dell



The Machinery of Death



The Death of Innocence


Epilogue


Author's Note on Resources


Notes


Index