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One morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined for himself: an expert witness in the trial of a convicted kidnapper, rapist and murderer. He had no idea that his brief testimony that day would take him deeply into the criminal justice system, to many other courthouses where unequal struggles take place between those who would condemn prisoners to death and those fighting to overturn the Biblical injunction of an eye for an eye. Before the end of William McFeely's journey out of history into the reality of the death penalty, he would encounter lawyers battling to end lives and to save them, jurors caught in between and convicts whose lives were at stake. He examines capital punishment in an uncompromisingly intimate way - through the actions and decisions of those with no time left for arid debate.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Proximity to Death
• Author: William S. McFeely
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780393321043
• ISBN: 0393321045
• ID: 04604154
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 234 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. February 2001

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