Let the Lord Sort Them

Let the Lord Sort Them
Author :
Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781524760274
ISBN-13 : 1524760277
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Let the Lord Sort Them by : Maurice Chammah

Download or read book Let the Lord Sort Them written by Maurice Chammah and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.


Let the Lord Sort Them Related Books

Let the Lord Sort Them
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Maurice Chammah
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-26 - Publisher: Crown

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishmen
Jesus on Death Row
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Prof. Mark Osler
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-01 - Publisher: Abingdon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What does the most infamous criminal proceeding in history--the trial of Jesus of Nazareth--have to tell us about capital punishment in the United States? Jesus
Capital Punishment in America
Language: en
Pages: 613
Authors: Evan Mandery
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-28 - Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This revised and updated second edition is an overview of capital punishment. It offers an examination of the death penalty, supported by statistics and Supreme
The Death Penalty in America
Language: en
Pages: 545
Authors: Hugo Adam Bedau
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

InThe Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject,provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the
America's Death Penalty
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: David Garland
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-25 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and c