In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America /

In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
Autor Corporativo: Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies
Otros Autores: Christian, Diane, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Colección:Documentary arts and culture.
Temas:
Death row > United States.
Death row inmates > United States.
Capital punishment > United States.
Quartier des condamnés à mort > États-Unis.
Condamnés à mort > États-Unis.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Capital punishment
Death row
Death row inmates
Todesstrafe
Gefängnis
United States
USA.
video recordings (physical artifacts)
Video recordings
Video recordings.
Vidéos.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Pictures
  • 1. Row
  • 2. Food
  • 3. In the J-23 dayroom
  • 4. volleyball game in the cage
  • 5. Hands and mirrors
  • 6. Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time
  • 7. Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated
  • 8. Twelve dead men
  • pt. II Words
  • 1. Being there
  • 2. Killable killers
  • 3. Dangerous people
  • 4. Good time and hard time
  • 5. prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White
  • 6. Terminology
  • 7. Getting to J
  • 8. Ellis's yellow line
  • 9. Visitors
  • 10. Counts
  • 11. Recreation
  • 12. Porters, floorboys, building tenders
  • 13. Noise
  • 14. Night, Brandon, Emily, and George
  • 15. Violence
  • 16. Craziness and boredom
  • 17. All the things a man might do on the Row
  • 18. Sockets and glass
  • 19. Nowhere land
  • 20. Time
  • 21. Living space and killing space
  • 22. death house
  • 23. Getting off the Row
  • 24. Why execute?
  • 25. Equity: Callins v. James
  • 26. Giving up on death
  • 27. Trends
  • 28. Records
  • pt. III Working
  • 1. Avoiding the Row
  • 2. invitation
  • 3. Building tenders
  • 4. Documenting the Row
  • 5. Bona fides
  • 6. "T'd like to cut your fuckin' throat"
  • 7. Trust
  • 8. Why talk?
  • 9. Punishing Diane
  • 10. Testifying
  • 11. Screening Death Row
  • 12. Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer
  • 13. In This Timeless Time.

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