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A NON EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS
You won't find "true crime" novels below...the list would be too long
Myriam
The Execution of Wllie Francis
By Gilbert King
The best book on capital punishment in America since Mailer's The Executioner's Song - this book can only change the mind about the death penalty ! It has to be read by anyone who still support the capital punishment.
The Rope, the Chair and the Needle
A solid contribution to our understanding of the relationship between race, crime, and capital punishment in American history. (Law and History Review )
Living Next Door to the Death House
by Virginia Stem Owens and David Clinton Owens
In Living Next Door to the Death House, the Owenses have taken on a difficult and potentially painfulsubject with great sensitivity and compassion.After talking to everyone from victims to prosecutors, guards to abolitionists, they present a balanced portrait of a system that can not be viewed in black and white. Along the way, they challenge the reader to think about capital punishment's relationship to justice and community, and what it means for someone to be executed in your name. A fair and balanced book, recommended toed anyone seeking a greater understanding of capital punishment in this country.
An important new book . . . the first to explore in such depth the historical continuities in capital punishment in a single state, and especially the complex part played by racism in both past and present application of the death penalty. It is must-reading for anyone who seeks to understand capital punishment in the United States. (Criminal Justice Review )
WARDEN
By former Texas WardenJim Willet and Ron Rozelle
The story of the author’s 30-year career in Texas prisons, from his first night as a shotgun-wielding guard to the last man he accompanied to the death chamber, Willett remembers not just the big events of his career but the small ones that give prison life its texture. In measured but powerful prose, he describes the efficient actions of the “tie-down team”; the prisoner’s often meandering last words; and the way that he himself lifted his glasses from his nose to signal the executioner to start the IV flow.
Actual Innocence
by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer
When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
Note sur le supplice de la guillotine
de Charles Nodier
Une réflexion sur l'assassinat légal, la guillotine, mais aussi sur les cimes de masse qu'elle facilite...
Cet ouvrage donne à méditer
Victor Hugo - Les Ecrits sur la Peine de Mort
Rassemblés en un seul volume les textes les plus divers par lesquels Victor Hugo, tout au long de sa vie, manifesta sa conviction que la peine de mort est l'inadmissible expression d'un pouvoir violent que s'octroie la société sous le couvert des lois
Dites-leur que je suis un homme !
de Ernest J. Gaines
Il y a une charge d'émotion dans ce roman. C'est l'histoire d'un homme qui meurt debout
Texas Death Row
Photographs by Ken Light
Ken Light and his camera were permitted unparalleled access to Texas Death Row. His stark, powerful images show where and how the condemned live. In the year he took these pictures, fourteen men were executed in Texas.
Suzanne Donovan's accompanying essay, "Shadow Figures: A Portrait of Life on the Row," draws upon her interviews with the condemned men and with prison authorities, family members, and members of victims' families
Whoever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death.
Texas Death Row - Executions in the Modern Era
The record preserved by th TDCJ for each of the individual offenders executed by the State in the modern era.
Ecrits de Prison
de Léonard Peltier
Le récit d'années de souffrance. Ces "Ecrits de Prison" laissent entendre la voix d'un homme qui, privé de liberté, continue de mener le combat au nom des peuples indiens pour la justice et l'égalité.
Within these Walls
by Rev. Carroll Pickett with Carlton Stowers
The memories of a death house chaplain. It must be read by anyone ! A heartbreaking account from the belly of the beast.
The Stranger beside me....Ted Bundy
By Ann Rule.
The most fascinating killer in modern America history.
Female Serial Killers
by Peter Vronsky
Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.
Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book
Cellule 2455 - Couloir de la Mort
de Caryl Chessman
Aucun être pensant et raisonnant ne peut lire cet ouvrage sans être bouleversé
Have a Seat, Please
by Don Reid with John Gurwell
Don Reid covered the Texas prison system for 35 years for the "Huntsville Item" and the Associated Press. He watched 189 men die in the electric chair. This is a personal account of his conversations with many of these men, and his later efforts to defend others on Death Row from the same fate.
One of the most profound books written on the subject of capital punishment that I have ever read.......... Join him on this voyage and you will experience a change in your life forever
Dennis R Longmire, Professor of Criminal Justice at the Sam HoustonState University
L'Exécution
L'Abolition
de Robert Badinter
Tout nous bouleverse dans ces livres durs et sensibles à la fois sur ce qu'on appelle la justice des hommes.
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice
Charles E Silberman
Once in a decade comes a book which explains what crime is all about. One of the most thorough and provocative studies ever made of crime in America.
En direct du Couloir de la Mort
Mumia Abu-Jamal
c'est les tripes nouées que l'on repose ce livre. Un livre qui ne peut pas laisser indifférent.
Anatole Deibler - L'homme qui trancha 400 têtes
Gérard A Jaeger
Watching Death - Capital Punishement in America
V. Wayne Sorge
A collection of observations with additional research about the ultimate punishment.
Le Pull Over Rouge
Gilles Perrault
Une enquête minutieuse, des faits troublants...on ne peut qu'être convaincus de l'innonce de Ranucci
Le Fantôme de Ranucci -ce jeune condamné qui me hante
Jean-François Le Forsonney
les interrogations de l'avocat de Ranucci......