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13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty | Mario Marazziti

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Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse—remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind. From the Hardcover edition.

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13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty | Mario Marazziti

Will this book take me to yet again unexplored worlds or I'll once more meet recurring flashes of familiar towns? For now, I can only hope.

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13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty | Mario Marazziti

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The death penalty is so controversial in the United States, even among people on the left, that I always dread discussion of it. This book gives an excellent critique of the subject from many different angles.

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