Capital Crimes, Paperback

Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging ...

Reducere. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

Reducere. A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran's cr...

Reducere. This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees...

Reducere. The Catholic Church has in recent decades been associated with political efforts to eliminate the death penalty. It was not always so. This timely ...

Reducere. 786 ab urbe condita--33 AD. Time is running out for Yeshua Ben Yusuf, on trial for capital crimes after rioting against the moneychangers in the te...

Reducere. From the author of his truly candid memoir, Inner City Miracle, comes the fast-paced thriller--now available in paperback--about a judge who is cau...

Reducere. Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over one hundred years. Its Water Street red-light district drew...

Reducere. A legislative intern with secrets that could unravel the governing elite vanishes into the night in Albany, New York. Seven years later, another yo...

Reducere. Pennsylvania may have been founded by peaceful Quakers, but the sect's pacifist ways didn't dampen the state's enthusiasm for violent scandals-or c...

DescriptionIn May 1870, seven members of the Marshall family, including three small children, were found brutally murdered in their home in Denham,...

Reducere. A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; t...

Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, he...

Reducere. On June 6, 1996, a mother named Darlie Routier did the unthinkable: she murdered her two sons, Damon aged 5, and Devon just one week shy of his 7th...

"Humaydan writes in her introduction to this haunting anthology that 'all of the stories are somehow framed by the Lebanese civil war, which lasted...

Reducere. Murder. Chaos. Outrage.This was the mode in Texas' capital city, Austin from 1884 to 1885. The city had been haunted by a string of bloody murders....

DescriptionWill Diablo's great magic annihilate the Church ?Lumachina has set out to reform the corrupted Church Choosing to help her, Diablo final...