A Courageous Fool : Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty /

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"There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances, including the murder of her beloved mother-in-...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Peppers, Todd C. (Auteur), Anderson, Margaret A. (Margaret Adell), 1990- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Deans, Marie McFadden, > 1940-2011.
Capital punishment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
LAW > Criminal Law > Sentencing.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Capital punishment > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The murder of Penny Deans
  • The birth of an abolitionist
  • Marie and the men of the South Carolina death row
  • Transitions
  • The Virginia coalition for jails and prisons
  • Inside the vortex of evil
  • Marie and Russ
  • Standing watch in the death house
  • Marie and Joe
  • The fight to save Joe Giarratano
  • Roger, Earl, and the death of the coalition
  • The final years.

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