A courageous fool : Marie Deans and her struggle against the death penalty / Todd C. Peppers, with Margaret A. Anderson.
2017
KF9227.C2 P45 2017 (Mapit)
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A courageous fool : Marie Deans and her struggle against the death penalty / Todd C. Peppers, with Margaret A. Anderson.
Imprint
Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]
Description
xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Formatted Contents Note
The murder of Penny Deans
The birth of an abolitionist
Marie and the men of the South Carolina death row
Transitions
The Virginia coalition for jails and prisons
Marie and Russ
Inside the vortex of evil
Standing watch in the death house
Marie and Joe
The fight to save Joe Giarratano
The death of the coalition
The final years alone.
The birth of an abolitionist
Marie and the men of the South Carolina death row
Transitions
The Virginia coalition for jails and prisons
Marie and Russ
Inside the vortex of evil
Standing watch in the death house
Marie and Joe
The fight to save Joe Giarratano
The death of the coalition
The final years alone.
Summary
"There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances, including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law, into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death." Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie's time as a death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she experienced the highs of helping exonerate the innocent and the lows of standing death watch in the death house with thirty-four condemned men."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
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KF9227.C2 P45 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780826521606 hardcover
0826521606 hardcover
9780826521613 paperback
0826521614 paperback
0826521606 hardcover
9780826521613 paperback
0826521614 paperback
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