DEATH AND JUSTICE: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine

FUHRMAN, Mark

ISBN 10: 0060009179 / ISBN 13: 9780060009175

Published by William Morrow, New York, NY, 2003

About this Item

Gray boards with black cloth spine. Gold colored print on spine. Remainder mark on foot edge, otherwise would be rasted higher. Tight sound and un-marked. Dust jacket has light shelf wear and is unclipped.

Seller Inventory # 006283

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEATH AND JUSTICE: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine
• Publisher: William Morrow, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060009179
• ISBN 13: 9780060009175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Reference
  • Mystery and Crime

About this title

Synopsis

Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself.

Are innocent people being executed? Are death penalty cases being investigated and tried as if someone's life depended on it? Is capital punishment justice or revenge?

Fuhrman seeks to answer these questions by investigating the death penalty in Oklahoma, a place where a "hang 'em high" attitude of cowboy justice resulted in twenty-one executions in 2001, more than in any other state in the nation. The majority of these death penalty cases came from one jurisdiction, Oklahoma County, where legendary district attorney Bob Macy bragged about sending more people to death row than any other prosecutor, and police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was eventually fired for mismanaging the crime lab. These two figures loom large in Fuhrman's investigation.

Examining police records, trial transcripts, and appellate decisions, and conducting hundreds of interviews, Fuhrman focuses his considerable investigative skills on more than a dozen of the most controversial Oklahoma death penalty cases, including two in which innocent men nearly lost their lives.

When he began Death and Justice, Mark Fuhrman was a firm believer in the death penalty. What he saw in Oklahoma changed his mind. It may change yours.

Review

"Essential for all true-crime collections." -- Library Journal

"Essential for all true-crime collections."--Library Journal

"Convinces that a criminal justice system can be criminal and lack justice."--Kirkus Reviews

Essential for all true-crime collections. --Library Journal"

Convinces that a criminal justice system can be criminal and lack justice. --Kirkus Reviews"