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Deathwork defending the condemned

Title: Deathwork [electronic resource] : defending the condemned / Michael Mello ; foreword by Mark E. Olive.
Author: Mello, Michael.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

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1 online resource (xxxix, 295 p.)

Uniform Title

Deathwork (Online)

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Deathwork (Online)
Death work

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Includes index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

The law's machinery of death -- Death clerk -- The aging hit man : Anthony Antone -- Executing the insane : Alvin Ford -- The electric chair : Bob Sullivan -- Racism : James Adams and James Dupree Henry -- Executing juveniles : Paul Magill -- The poet : Stephen Todd Booker -- The landmark case : Jim Hitchcock -- My roommate : Joseph Green Brown -- The innocent man : Bennie Demps -- Missing in action : David Funchess -- Poorhouse justice : David Washington -- Killed by a legal technicality : Ronald Straight.

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