Harris, Duchess
Summary: Examines all aspects of capital punishment in the United States, and discusses the history behind the death penalty in the United States, plus varying opinions about the ethics of capital punishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 345.73 HARHinton, Anthony Ray
Summary: A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem HintonMar, Alex
Summary: "A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MARSummary: Fighting for life in the death-belt considers the controversial institution of capital punishment in America through the eyes of Stephen Bright, the nations's leading anti-death penalty lawyer. For twenty-five years Bright has defended death row inmates deep in the heart of the nations' death-belt - the Southeastern states where ninety percent of executions occur.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E.M. Productions 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIGSummary: The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which for the first time it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man. This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Relates the life of an African American inmate, sentenced to death for taking part in a robbery in which a victim was killed, and for whom opponents of the death penalty spent twelve years unsuccessfuly trying to have the case reviewed and his sentence overturned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, DOMINIQUE CAHCurrie, Stephen
Summary: With no scientific knowledge to guide them, people of medieval times believed that diseases were supernatural phenomena or punishments from God. Thus medical treatments were usually primitive and often horrifying. But little by little, knowledge grewultimately leading to a more practical and scientific approach to understanding sickness and ways to treat it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CURRoza, Greg.
Summary: Looks at the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, examining the state of the world before it was passed, how it came to be passed, and how the protections that it guarantees have been handled through the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.73077 ROZBeer, Daniel
Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKPrejean, Helen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.66 PRESummary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTEdge, Laura Bufano
Summary: A history of the United States prison system and its many changes over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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Summary: "Older women have been deemed useless to society and abandoned on a remote island, where they must fight to the death, whilst making friends and dessert. Welcome to GOLDEN RAGE: a not-too distant dystopia where BATTLE ROYALE meets THE GOLDEN GIRLS."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOLDow, David R.
Summary: "A riveting, artfully written memoir of a lawyer's life as he races to prevent death row inmates from being executed"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOW, DAVID DOWHerrera, Yuri
Summary: "Este libro imagina una hipótesis: ¿qué sucedió durante el año y medio en que Benito Juárez, quien acabaría siendo el primer presidente indígena de México, vivió desterrado en Nueva Orleans? Es en ese «hueco marcado por el punto y aparte» en la autobiografía de Juárez donde comienza la narración. Acompañado por un pequeño grupo de exiliados políticos, Juárez desembarca en 1853 en esa ciudad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periférica
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC HERSummary: Across Africa, a belief in witchcraft continues to terrorize women. "Witches in Exile" tells the story of women in rural northern Ghana accused of witchcraft, and the role of witchcraft in. They are beaten and cast out, sent to special villages that serve as havens and mitigate the brutal side of the culture. "Witches in Exile" examines how belief in witchcraft operates in northern Ghana, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Alcorn, Randy C.
Summary: In a dramatic exposition on the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, author Randy Alcorn and artist Javier Saltares take readers into the realm of first century Jerusalem and then two very different eternal realms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingstone Comics 2014
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Austen, Ben
Summary: "FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 AUSBazterrica, Agustina Maraia
Summary: Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans-- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now, eating "special meat" is legal. Then one day he is given a live specimen of the finest quality. Though aware that any form of personal contact is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Summary: "Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 BOOChamberlain, Lesley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 CHAChardavoyne, David G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003