A gripping examination of the case for and against capital punishment by a respected criminal lawyer and celebrated novelist. In the words of Harvard Law Professor, Laurence H. Tribe--"Ultimate Punishment is the ultimate statement about the death penalty: to read it is to understand why law alone cannot make us whole." As a respected criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his recent service on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office. Telling the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois's state-of-the art "super-max" prison and the execution chamber, Ultimate Punishment has all the drama and intellectual substance of Turow's bestselling fiction.
Sobre o autor(a)
Turow, Scott
Combinando sua experiência como advogado e sua habilidade literária, o americano SCOTT TUROW se firmou como o grande mestre do suspense jurídico. Autor best-seller com mais de 30 milhões de exemplares vendidos em todo o mundo, Turow conquistou leitores com tramas intricadas e personagens complexos. Entre seus romances se destaca o clássico Acima de qualquer suspeita, traduzido para mais de vinte idiomas e adaptado para o cinema e para a televisão. Uma nova adaptação, dessa vez para uma série da Apple TV+, estreia em 2023. Além de sua carreira literária, Turow também colabora com ensaios e artigos em prestigiosas publicações, como The New York Times
e Vanity Fair. |