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A gripping examination of the case for
and against capital punishment by a respected criminal lawyer
and celebrated novelist. In the words of Harvard Law Professor,
Laurence H. Tribe--"Ultimate Punishment is the ultimate
statement about the death penalty: to read it is to understand
why law alone cannot make us whole."
As a respected criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved
with the death penalty for more than a decade, including
successfully representing two different men convicted in
death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account of how
his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes
his own experiences with capital punishment from his days
as an impassioned young prosecutor to his recent service
on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration
of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan’s
unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row
inmates on his last day in office. Telling the powerful stories
behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor’s
Mansion to Illinois’s state-of-the art “super-max” prison
and the execution chamber, Ultimate Punishment has all the
drama and intellectual substance of Turow’s bestselling
fiction.
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