| Description |
ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Why Death Is Different: Capital Punishment in the Legal System -- Ch. 2. How the Death Penalty Really Works: Selecting Death Penalty Offenders in America -- Ch. 3. Who Is the Meanest of Them All? -- Ch. 4. Is There a Doctor in the Chamber -- Ch. 5. Women on the Row -- Ch. 6. Killing Kids -- Ch. 7. Enlarging the Circle -- Ch. 8. Tossing in the Towel -- Ch. 9. Death Row Donors -- Ch. 10. Killing the Lawyers -- Ch. 11. The Great Writ - Re: The Condemned -- Ch. 12. A Practice in Search of an Ethic: The Death Penalty in the Contemporary South -- Ch. 13. An Unholy Tradition -- Ch. 14. The Executed Warden -- Ch. 15. "Goodbye, Toni Jo": The Electrocution of Annie Beatrice Henry -- Ch. 16. Struck by Lightning: Electrocutions for Rape in Louisiana in the 1940s and 1950s -- Ch. 17. Unbalanced Justice -- Ch. 18. Tragedy -- Ch. 19. Sensory Anguish -- Ch. 20. Truce -- Ch. 21. A Killer Year -- Ch. 22. Far-Off Places -- Ch. 23. One Man's View |
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Ch. 24. A Lawyer's Opinion: Kind and Usual Punishment -- Ch. 25. Any Last Words? |
| Summary |
"Death Watch is a topical, up-to-date collection of death penalty journalism and personal essays. Drawing on the experiences and perspectives of Lane Nelson, a former death row inmate and current staff writer for "The Angolite," Louisiana's award winning prison news magazine, and Burk Foster, a University of Louisiane-Lafayette criminal justice professor and jail and prison expert witness, Death Watch looks at the death penalty as a legal process, a social reality, and a fundamental issue of public policy."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States.
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Death row inmates -- United States.
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Death row -- United States.
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| Author |
Foster, Burk.
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| LC no. |
00040083 |
| ISBN |
0130852015 |
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