Ultimate Punishment (Record no. 8119)
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| fixed length control field | 01862nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2003007873 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780374128739 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 52030296 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KF9227.C2 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 345.730773 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Scott Turow |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ultimate Punishment |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 176 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | America's leading writer about the law takes a close, incisive look at one of society's most vexing legal issues Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected criminal lawyer, he 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. Along the way, he provides a brief history of America's ambivalent relationship with the ultimate punishment, analyzes the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims' survivors, and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois' state-of-the art 'super-max' prison and the execution chamber.This gripping, clear-sighted, necessary examination of the principles, the personalities, and the politics of a fundamental dilemma of our democracy has all the drama and intellectual substance of Turow's celebrated fiction. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Law |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 345.73 TURO | 49814 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |