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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780446562072
Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David
Dow lays his cards on the table. “People think that because I am
against the death penalty and don’t think people should be
executed, that I forgive those people for what they did. Well, it
isn’t my place to forgive people, and if it were, I probably
wouldn’t. I’m a judgmental and not very forgiving guy. Just ask my
wife.”
It this spellbinding true crime narrative, Dow takes us inside
of prisons, inside the complicated minds of judges, inside
execution-administration chambers, into the lives of death row
inmates (some shown to be innocent, others not) and even into his
own home–where the toll of working on these gnarled and difficult
cases is perhaps inevitably paid. He sheds insight onto unexpected
phenomena– how even religious lawyer and justices can evince deep
rooted support for putting criminals to death– and makes palpable
the suspense that clings to every word and action when human lives
hang in the balance.
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