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Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future Hardcover - 2001

by Jesse Jackson; Bruce Shapiro

An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution. Photos.


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With public opinion polls showing opposition to the death penalty at its highest level in twenty years, this timely book by two of America's most important civil rights leaders and the Nation's criminal justice reporter makes a passionate and persuasive case against capital punishment. Combining a powerful moral argument with recent, overwhelming evidence of systematic legal error and widespread racial bias in death penalty cases, Legal Lynching directly attacks the basic claims of those--including our new president--who continue to insist on execution as a punitive solution for an increasing number of crimes. With the abolition of the death penalty in South Africa, the United States has become the last industrialized democracy to persist in state-sponsored execution.

Grounded in stories of those who were unjustly convicted and left to languish on death row, Legal Lynching is a moving, human book by America's leading death penalty abolitionists.


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  • Title Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future
  • Author Jesse Jackson; Bruce Shapiro
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York
  • Date October 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781565846852 / 1565846850
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 6.34 x 0.8 in (24.64 x 16.10 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Capital punishment - United States, Discrimination in capital punishment -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001034256
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.660

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2001, Page 1091
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2001, Page 206
  • New York Times, 10/07/2001, Page 12
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/13/2001, Page 294
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2002, Page 135

About the author

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. ran for president of the United States in 1984 and 1988. He is the founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. represented the second congressional district of Illinois in the United States Congress from 1995 to 2012. He is a co-author (with Reverend Jesse Jackson and Bruce Shapiro) of Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future (The New Press). Bruce Shapiro is a contributing editor at the Nation, and national correspondent for Salon.com.
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