Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys Contributor(s): Sheffer, Susannah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826519113 ISBN-13: 9780826519115 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Profession - Law | Criminal Law - General - Law | Trial Practice |
Dewey: 345.730 |
LCCN: 2012032701 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. What it is like for these capital defenders in their last visits or phone calls with clients who are about to be taken to the execution chamber? Or the next mornings, in their lives with their families, in their dreams and flashbacks and moments alone in the car? What is it like to do this work year after year? (These attorneys had, on average, spent nineteen years doing capital defense.)
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Contributor Bio(s): Sheffer, Susannah: - Susannah Sheffer, author of three previous books, is Project Director at Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights. |