Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions - Hardcover

Stack, Richard A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612341624 ISBN 13: 9781612341620

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc., 2013

Synopsis

In Grave Injustice Richard A. Stack seeks to advance the antideath penalty argument by examining the cases of individuals who, like Davis, have been executed but are likely innocent. By telling the stories of Jesse Tafero, Ruben Cantu, Carlos DeLuna, Cameron Todd Willingham, Larry Griffin, and others, Stack puts a human face on the ultimate and irrevocable tragedy of capital punishment.

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"Professor Stack has written a smart and engaging book on capital punishment. Using the unforgettable stories of real people, he drives home the many ways in which the death penalty system is broken in the United States. He then inspires us with examples of six very different people who have turned hope and vision into reality, tragedy into triumph, and forever changed the landscape of the capital punishment debate."--Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty--Diann Rust-Tierney

"Stack . . . takes readers into the lives of 18 inmates who were executed despite persistent doubts about their guilt and consistent evidence to prove innocence."--Colman McCarthy, National Catholic Reporter--Colman McCarthy "National Catholic Reporter "

"In addition to revealing that, in all likelihood, the United States has executed innocent men, Grave Injustice exposes the fundamental defects in capital punishment that produce such fatal mistakes. By focusing on these particular cases, the book brings to vivid life the two basic arguments for abolition--that the death penalty affects, and is carried out by, real flawed human beings, and that an irreversible punishment has no place in an imperfect system."--Brian Evans, Campaigner for Amnesty International USA's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign--Brian Evans

"Richard Stack's book Grave Injustice is the tombstone for the death penalty."--Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, Advocacy Director for Witness to Innocence and the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA--Kirk Noble Bloodsworth

About this edition

• Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1612341624
• ISBN 13: 9781612341620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288