Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution by Austin Sarat

Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution

Austin Sarat

325 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state...

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