In This Timeless Time : Daily Life and Capricious Death in America's Capital Punishment Gulag.

In This Timeless Time : Daily Life and Capricious Death in America's Capital Punishment Gulag.

In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Bruce
Other Authors: Christian, Diane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Documentary arts and culture.
Subjects:
Death row > United States.
Death row inmates > United States.
Capital punishment > United States.
Capital punishment
Death row
Death row inmates
United States
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Summary:In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official "nonperiod" between sentencing and execution. Included in the print edition of this book is a DVD of Jackson and Christian's 1979 documentary film, ###Death Row#. The full length film can also be found included in the enhanced ebook edition of ###
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:9780807882641
080788264X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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