| A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty Contributor(s): Peppers, Todd C. (Author), Anderson, Margaret A. (Author), Giarratano, Joseph M. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0826521614 ISBN-13: 9780826521613 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists - Social Science | Penology - Law | Criminal Law - Sentencing |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2016042799 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.40 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the machinery of death. Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie's time as a death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she experienced the highs of helping exonerate the innocent and the lows of standing death watch in the death house with thirty-four condemned men. |
Contributor Bio(s): Peppers, Todd C.: - Todd C. Peppers, Fowler Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College and Visiting Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, is co-author of Anatomy of an Execution: The Life and Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas. |