Dead Man's Jury
Author | : Emerson Dodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Emerson Dodge |
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Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : J.R. Roberts |
Publisher | : Speaking Volumes |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161232469X |
Author | : Scott E. Sundby |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1466892269 |
A gripping exploration of a jury's members' perspectives on the most wrenching decision: the death sentence With a life in the balance, a jury convicts a man of murder and now has to decide whether he should be put to death. Twelve people now face a momentous choice. Bringing drama to life, A Life and Death Decision gives unique insight into how a jury deliberates. We feel the passions, anger, and despair as the jurors grapple with legal, moral, and personal dilemmas. The jurors' voices are compelling. From the idealist to the "holdout," the individual stories—of how and why they voted for life or death—drive the narrative. The reader is right there siding with one or another juror in this riveting read. From movies to novels to television, juries fascinate. Focusing on a single case, Sundby sheds light on broader issues, including the roles of race, class, and gender in the justice system. With death penalty cases consistently in the news, this is an important window on how real jurors deliberate about a pressing national issue.
Author | : Reginald Rose |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2006-08-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780143104407 |
A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Reid Hastie |
Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Jury |
ISBN | : 1584772697 |
Hastie, Reid and Steven D. Penrod, Nancy Pennington. Inside the Jury. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. viii, 277 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002025963. ISBN 1-58477-269-7. Cloth. $95. * "A landmark jury study." Contemporary Sociology. An important statistical study of the dynamics of jury selection and deliberation that offers a realistic jury simulation model, a statistical analysis of the personal characteristics of jurors, and a general assessment of jury performance based on research findings conducted by reputed scholars in the behavioral sciences. "The book will stand as the third great product of social research into jury operations, ranking with Kalven and Zeisel's The American Jury and Van Dyke's Jury Selection Procedures." American Bar Association Journal.
Author | : Benjamin Fleury-Steiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
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An extraordinary study of the people directly involved in death-penalty decisions
Author | : Helen Prejean |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0307787699 |
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.
Author | : Michael Underwood |
Publisher | : Murder Room |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1471904865 |
Bernie Mostyn, vice racketeer, is being retried. At his first trial a jury had failed to agree - but this time around two jurors are threatened and a third is killed. The most obvious suspects are Mostyn's strong-arm men, still at large. But the police are not convinced ... 'Mr Underwood at his attractive, unpretentious best' Sunday Times
Author | : Charles Postell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Criminal psychology |
ISBN | : 9780915281008 |
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Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1795 |
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