Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1997 - Law - 393 pages
There are many important questions raised in this book. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine from cottage industry to entrepreneurial endeavour, all had their beginnings in medicine's Golden Age. Their heirs, today's practitioners, may have mistaken technology for their task, science for their religion, and business for their creed, but if the spirit of the physicians in this book wins out, medicine's Golden Age is yet in the future.
 

Contents

The Hanging Judge
42
A Montage of a Lawyers Life
56
Theodore
88
Pressing the Law to Keep
126
An Apologia
200
Postscript
273
Index
375
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Michael A. Mello formerly worked full time as a capital public defender in Florida and is now professor of law at Vermont Law School. He is the author of Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justices Brennan and Marshall.

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