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Inside a quiet state prison, a chaplain bears witness to the most private ritual of American justice. For years he has stood behind the glass, between those who wait and those who act—recording every detail the official reports leave behind. Now, in this anonymous account drawn from a lifetime of service, he tells what it means to serve both faith and procedure in a system built for silence. Told with restraint and moral clarity, The Death Penalty: Chronicles of State-Sanctioned Deaths is neither argument nor exposé. It is a meditation on duty, belief, and the cost of remaining human ...

Keturah idolizes her brother, Justus. He stood his ground with Abba, declaring Yeshua Messiah, resulting in Keturah’s desire to know more about Yeshua, and Abba proclaiming Justus dead to the family. Today, Keturah became a woman, but her joy ends in terror when Abba accepts an offer for her betrothal. Devising a plan to escape the arranged marriage is dangerous, but it works. Now she’s able to find her brother and live as she chooses.

Out debate your opponents by understanding all sides of the death penalty debate! Find out where you stand by learning in depth about the considerations behind having a death penalty as a matter of public policy.

Death Penalty: Where justice ends, execution begins. The death penalty has shaped legal systems, moral debates, and public opinion for centuries. In Death Penalty: Where Justice Ends and Execution Begins, author Alan Key explores the long and complex history of capital punishment and the ongoing debate over whether the state should ever have the power to take a human life. From ancient civilizations that relied on public executions to modern courtrooms wrestling with constitutional limits, this book traces how execution has evolved alongside society itself. Readers will learn how methods of...

Shot Through the Heart is an exhaustive, investigative account of one of the most controversial capital punishment cases in modern American history. Spanning over five decades, the book explores the life, crimes, and execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner—a Utah man whose violent acts and ultimate death by firing squad ignited national and international debates about the death penalty, prison reform, and the moral limits of justice. The story begins in Gardner’s troubled childhood, marked by instability, neglect, and early exposure to crime and substance abuse. Born into a broken home plagued ...

Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: "I need you."

Old Sparky covers the history of capital punishment in America and the "current wars" between Edison and Westinghouse, which led to the development of the electric chair. It examines how the electric chair became the most popular method of execution in America before being superseded by lethal injection. Famous executions are explored alongside quirky last meals and poignant last words.

EXECUTED! Since 1900, almost 60 women have been executed in the United States, each death cloaked in the shifting shadows of justice, vengeance, and morality. These women came from every corner of the country and walked vastly different paths, but all ended at the same cold crossroads: the execution chamber. Some were vilified as monsters, others quietly forgotten. A few still stir debate today—were they truly guilty, or tragic casualties of flawed trials and public hysteria? EXECUTED! is not just a record of their final moments. It is a journey through a century of crime and consequence,...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of...

This second volume picks up where the first left off, widening the frame on a hard question: what does it mean when the United States chooses to kill a woman in the name of the law. Women remain statistical outliers on death row and in the execution chamber, yet their cases sit at the crossroads of motive, method, race, class, and the stories a community tells to make sense of violence. Here we move beyond the most cited headlines to the quieter files and the stubborn details that complicate simple narratives. Each chapter centers a single case and then steps back: to the courtroom where ...

He left home on the farm in Illinois, looking for adventure. What he found would change the course of his short life. In 1925, Ted Coggeshall was a young farmer from small-town Illinois - caring, hard-working, and restless. With the open road ahead, he set out to see the South, chasing sunshine and adventure. But what followed may have been one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice the nation has ever seen. A local drifter with mob ties—Sam “Slim” Scarborough—cut a deal to save his own neck, accusing Ted and his friend of murdering a retired schoolmaster. Circumstantial ...

Between 1900 and 1928, the gallows, and the electric chair claimed the lives of a series of women across the United States, each one a story steeped in desperation, violence, and controversy. Executed 4 Every Woman Executed In The USA Since 1900 is the final volume in the acclaimed “Executed” series exploring the rarely told histories of American women condemned to death. From small-town scandals to crimes that captivated the nation, these cases reveal shifting social attitudes toward gender, justice, and morality in a rapidly modernizing world. Drawing from court records, newspaper ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A dark and thoughtful tale pulsing with moral uncertainties . . . Grisham is at his best.”—People In Chicago’s top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row...

During my Scholarly Writing course in law school over the summer (2021), I was "free-writing" on this topic to see if this would be my topic for my paper—instead, I had a conversation with myself, and this is the end result!

Since 1900, the execution of women has stood at the uneasy crossroads of crime, justice, and society’s deepest fears. Far less common than the executions of men, these cases have nonetheless gripped the public imagination, making headlines, sparking moral debate, and raising haunting questions about guilt, punishment, and equality under the law. Were these women cold-blooded killers, victims of circumstance, or something more complex? In this third volume of Matthew Kell Taylor’s acclaimed Executed series, the bestselling author of 50 Crimes That Rocked the World and the Killer Wives ...

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was...

In Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape...

“A splendid piece of crime fiction . . . a fitting cap to a tremendous career . . . Through it all, Puzo keeps the heat on and keeps the reader enthralled with his characters and his story.”—The Denver Post To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children, he was a loyal family member, their father’s...

Why was Laci Peterson murdered? When was Laci Peterson murdered? How exactly did Scott Peterson dump her body without anyone seeing him? Even after the landmark court case, the prosecution and the jury couldn’t say exactly what happened, when or how, so what did happen? Scott Peterson was convicted of first-degree, premeditated double murder. Trawling through the extended backstory of this fifteen year old case, the author finds obscure pieces to a familiar puzzle and contextualises all the available information: court records, interviews, media reports, police reports, evidence, court ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this “grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story” (The Washington Post) from “the master of the legal thriller” (USA Today), an innocent man is about to be executed—and only a guilty man can save him. WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL...