The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496809130 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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The story of a tireless legal Samaritan and his warfare on the injustice of capital punishment
John Temple is the author of Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office (2005), published by the University Press of Mississippi. His most recent book, American Pain, was named a “Best Book of 2015” in the True Crime category by Suspense Magazine. Prior to teaching, Temple was a newspaper reporter in Pittsburgh, Greensboro, a
Excellent, well written. Eye-opening intro to issues of IQ testing in such cases I just finished reading "The Last Lawyer" last night. I would recommend it to anyone who has not been privy to the lengthy, complex and personal winding road of death penalty appeals and the court proceedings. I agree with Leonard Pitts (one of my favorite syndicated columnist) who, on the book jacket, describes the book as reading "like first-class legal fiction, but it's far more compelling because it is, tragically, legal fact." So true. It was an extremely easy read and felt like story unfolding before me. I found myself frequently saying "just one more short chapter" before. a great book Danny I finished The Last Lawyer late last night. It is a great book.This is a suspenseful story written without overly dramatizing and without synthetic suspense prose. It makes the legal system (almost) comprehensible to the average person. The people are presented in a compelling manner with all their humanity on display, neither deified nor condemned, just presented with understanding and humor. The objectivity is laudable and is a lamentably lonely and badly needed model for journalists and non-fiction writers. This book will do a lot to help people understand the conundrum of de. Compelling read a page-turner I'll admit that the subject of this book is not something I usually gravitate to, but I received it as a gift, and was pleasantly surprised. This is a compelling story for many reasons. For example, the story of Bo, his conviction, and his family is an interesting one. However, the author takes complicated (and potentially dry) topics such as also death row legal cases, mental retardation evaluation, and appellate courts, and explains them in an understandable and fascinating way. I read this book in 2 days couldn't put it down! I think that this would be a great gift for anyone
Investigators, criminals, judges, witnesses, and attorneys are all finely, vividly drawn in this disturbing account of a justice system hijacked by officials whose prime interest is finding criminals to execute: "Even if Bo Jones wasn't one of the worst of the worst, they pursued him because he was one of the ones they could get." Reviewing the original 1987 murder, the consequent trials and endless hearings, Temple creates an intimate portrait of Rose and his Center for Death Penalty Litigation as they trudge through a decade of work on this case, a typical example that pits the odds and public opinion against them: "To question capital punishment was to appear soft on crime In court,