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The last face you'll ever see: the private life of the American death penalty. (Books In Review: the burden of execution).(Review)

American Prospect, The,  December, 2001  by Lowenstein, Tom

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The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty By Ivan Solotaroff. HarperCollins, 232 pages, $25.00

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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 something altogether ...

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