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FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE: VOLUME I
The Death Penalty
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Frontiers of Justice: Volume I
The Death Penalty
edited by Claudia Whitman and Julie Zimmerman
Biddle Publishing Company
An anthology by men and women of reason and conscience who deplore the use of
legalized killing to solve America's criminal justice problems. The authors have
been touched by capital punishment personally (the inmates, their families and
their victims' families) or professionally (in the areas of law, criminal
justice, government, religion, journalism and advocacy). Prologue by Mario
Cuomo. ISBN: 1-879418-26-6
©1992
15.95 US
Softcover 268 Pages
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REVIEWS
"Frontiers of Justice does a phenomenal job in
bringing together a mass of eloquent anti-death penalty accounts and views. We
hear the view of an inmate, a witness, a corrections veteran, a Native American
demonstrator, in addition to fine words from my friend and teacher, Mike
Farrell.
As long as we command the state to perform executions for us, we perpetuate the
act of murder We show little inclination to comprehend the fallibility of the
death penalty. We are cold. If ever we wish to change, this book will be part of
the reason why."
--Edward Asner
"...remarkably poignant and fact-filled new anti-capital punishment
anthology, Frontiers of Justice. I especially recommend the Jaeger
chapter. It's short and concludes by saying if we condone capital punishment,
'we become that which we deplore -- people who kill people -- an insult to the
memory of our beloved."
Hugh McDiarmid, Detroit Free
Press
"Just as now we're curious about slavery and segregation and how it was
when women couldn't vote, so, too, when the death penalty is abolished and
execution chambers are consigned to museums, then people will be eager to know
the real stories about what happened. Frontiers of Justice brings
you those real inside stories from people who have had a lived experience of the
death penalty. Get this book for yourself and for your grandchildren. This is
and will be considered a very valuable book."
--Helen Prejean, CJS, Author of
Dead Man Walking
