Free Download Maurice Chammah, "Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty"
English | ISBN: 1524760285 | 2022 | 368 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
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.
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