| Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine Contributor(s): Fuhrman, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060732083 ISBN-13: 9780060732080 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: When he began working on this book, Fuhrman was a firm believer in the death penalty. What he saw in Oklahoma changed his mind. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 364.976 |
| LCCN: 2002040992 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma - Cultural Region - Mid-South |
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| Publisher Description: Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge? Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself. Fuhrman seeks to answer these questions by investigating the death penalty in Oklahoma, where a hang 'em high attitude of cowboy justice resulted in twenty-one executions in 2001, more than any other state. Most of these cases came from one jurisdiction, Oklahoma County, where legendary DA Bob Macy bragged of sending more people to death row than any other prosecutor, and police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was eventually fired for mismanaging the crime lab. Examining police records, trial transcripts, appellate decisions and conducting hundreds of interviews, Fuhrman focuses his considerable investigative skills on more than a dozen of the most controversial Oklahoma death penalty cases.
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Contributor Bio(s): Fuhrman, Mark: - Retired LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman is the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in Brentwood, Murder in Greenwich, Murder in Spokane, and Death and Justice. He lives in Idaho. |