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Mello, Michael.

Deathwork defending the condemned / [electronic resource] : Death work Michael Mello ; foreword by Mark E. Olive. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002. - xxxix, 295 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

The law's machinery of death -- Death clerk -- The aging hit man : Anthony Antone -- Executing the insane : Alvin Ford -- The electric chair : Bob Sullivan -- Racism : James Adams and James Dupree Henry -- Executing juveniles : Paul Magill -- The poet : Stephen Todd Booker -- The landmark case : Jim Hitchcock -- My roommate : Joseph Green Brown -- The innocent man : Bennie Demps -- Missing in action : David Funchess -- Poorhouse justice : David Washington -- Killed by a legal technicality : Ronald Straight.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Mello, Michael.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Lawyers--United States--Biography.
Defense (Criminal procedure)--United States.
Capital punishment--United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: KF373.M45 / A3 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 345.73/0772