Legal lynching: the death penalty and America's future. (Books In Review: the burden of execution).(Review)
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Lowenstein, Tom
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Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.; Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.; and Bruce Shapiro. New Press, 174 pages, $22.95
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IVAN SOLOTAROFF STATES EARLY on in The Last Face You'll Ever See that he is agnostic on the subject of the death penalty. His book, he writes, will make no attempt to answer the question of whether the death penalty is moral or not; he instead will focus on "the motive of capital punishment." He asks: "Is an execution a rational mechanism--i.e., a tool of deterrence, punishment, or jurisprudence ...? Or is it ...
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