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Title

Dead wrong : a death row lawyer speaks out against capital punishment / Michael A. Mello ; with a foreword by David Von Drehle.

Author

Mello, Michael.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997.

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Description

xvi, 393 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"After fourteen years as a death row lawyer in Florida, Michael Mello has seen enough. Dead Wrong is a candid and compelling account of his decision to withdraw from "the machinery of death"--The American capital punishment system."--BOOK JACKET. "Telling stories of cases he worked on - including those of confessed serial killer Ted Bundy and of "Crazy Joe" Spaziano, wrongly convicted but still on death row after twenty years - Mello provides an inside view of death row lawyering as no one has done before. He describes how he and others fought to make the post-conviction system work, ensuring inmates the right to a fair appeal. Alternately impassioned, angry, and haunted by the victims, crimes, and criminals, Mello draws us into the legal maze of appeals, death warrants, stays of execution, and executions."--BOOK JACKET. "Though Mello is unflinching in his recognition of the brutal realities of capital crimes, his book is a powerful indictment of the death penalty enterprise in America. He is appalled at the lack of vigilance in a system that routinely punishes guilty and innocent alike. And, practicing in Florida, he saw the state's death penalty cost to taxpayers rise to an estimated average $3.2 million per execution - six times the average cost of life imprisonment."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

Capital punishment > United States

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 0299153401 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299153444

LCCN

^^^97006427^

OCLC

36423460

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library