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Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment
By Michael A. Mello
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 1997-11-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0299153401
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780299153403
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Product Description:
After fourteen years as a death row lawyer in Florida, Michael Mello has seen enough. Dead Wrong is a candid and compelling account of his decision to withdraw from the the machinery of deaththe American capital punishment system. Telling stories of cases he worked onincluding those of confessed serial killer Ted Bundy and of Crazy Joe Spaziano, wrongly convicted but still on death row after twenty yearsMello provides an inside view of death row lawyering as no one has done before. He describes how he and others fought to make the post-conviction system work, ensuring inmates the right to a fair appeal. Alternately impassioned, angry, and haunted by the victims, crimes, and criminals, Mello draws us into the legal maze of appeals, death warrants, stays of execution, and executions. Though Mello is unflinching in his recognition of the brutal realities of capital crimes, his book is a powerful indictment of the death penalty. He is appalled at the lack of vigilance in a system that routinely punishes guilty and innocent alike. And, in Florida, he saw the states death penalty cost to taxpayers rise to an estimated average $3.2 million per executionsix times the average cost of life imprisonment. Mello condemns the death penalty as a grotesque waste, one that dishonors victims and their families, exacts formidable costs from government and citizens alike, plays into political agendas, and undermines the American justice system. Should lawyers of conscience, Mello asks, participate in a system that is dead wrong? Though more prisoners are on death row now than ever before, Mello has made his decision to conscientiously withdraw from this system, and offers compelling reasons for the rest of us to do the same.
The real death penalty enterprise is a Rube Goldberg contraption kept clanking perpetually by the fuel of caffeinated lawyers and their cousins the poll-driven politicians. Michael Mello is a witness from inside the machine.from the Foreword by David Von Drehle, author of Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Death Row
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