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Bill Kurtis Public Affairs www.publicaffairsbooks.com 192 pp., $25
The theme shaping this short book is a quote from Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. In Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 case reinstating the death penalty, Marshall said in his dissenting opinion that if the American people were better informed about the immorality of the death penalty, "they would consider it shocking, unjust, and unacceptable." (The Court had found the death penalty unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia in 1972.)
In less than 200 pages, Bill Kurtis, host and producer of several syndicated investigative and crime-related television programs, tries to explain his metamorphosis from a death penalty advocate to a staunch opponent. He does this by focusing on the details of two cases where the death penalty was wrongly ordered, the convictions reversed on appeal, and the defendants eventually acquitted. He concludes from this microcosm that the current death penalty system is fatally flawed.
Kurtis, a 1966 graduate of the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, selected compelling cases to make his point. Both arose outside urban...
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