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Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

by Michael A. Mello

University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Cloth: 978-0-299-15340-3 | eISBN: 978-0-299-15343-4 | Paper: 978-0-299-15344-1
Library of Congress Classification KF9227.C2M383 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 345.730773

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Winner of the 1998 Award for Excellence in Indexing, American Society of Indexers and H. W. Wilson Company

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Michael A. Mello formerly worked full time as a capital public defender in Florida and is now professor of law at Vermont Law School. He is the author of Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justices Brennan and Marshall.

REVIEWS

“A blistering, well-annotated critique. . . . both passionate and eloquent.”—Publishers Weekly starred review

“Death-penalty supporters—and opponents, for that matter—who do not read this unique insider’s account of capital punishment as a capricious and nearly broken-down system will lay themselves open to the charge that they don’t know what they’re talking about.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Mello separates himself from others who have written about death row. He is visceral, not cerebral . . . One of the nation’s most passionate post-conviction lawyers.”—Colman McCarthy, The Nation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Foreword by David Von Drehle

Acknowledgments

1. Deathwatch: A Sort of Introduction

2. Judge Robert S. Vance: The Hanging Judge Who Hated Capital Punishment

3. Florida Fragments: A Montage of a Lawyer's Life of Death

4. On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law

5. Why I Did Deathwork: Pressing the Law to Keep Its Promises

6. "On Strike, Shut It Down" : A 'Apologia' for Conscientious Abstention from the Machinery of Death

Postscript

Notes

Index

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