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846722
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Mello, Michael.
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Deathwork : : defending the condemned /\ Michael Mello ; foreword by Mark E. Olive.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xxxix, 295 pages)
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081669446X
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: 9780816694464
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0816640874
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0816640882
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9780816640874
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9780816640881
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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The law's machinery of death -- Death clerk -- The aging hit man : Anthony Antone -- Executing the insane : Alvin Ford -- The electric chair : Bob Sullivan -- Racism : James Adams and James Dupree Henry -- Executing juveniles : Paul Magill -- The poet : Stephen Todd Booker -- The landmark case : Jim Hitchcock -- My roommate : Joseph Green Brown -- The innocent man : Bennie Demps -- Missing in action : David Funchess -- Poorhouse justice : David Washington -- Killed by a legal technicality : Ronald Straight.
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| Abstract
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Michael Mello, a capital public defender, tells us the stories behind the cases that make up Deathwork, a moment-by-moment, behind-the-scenes look at the life and work of a death row lawyer and his clients.
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Mello, Michael.
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Mello, Michael.
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Capital punishment-- United States.
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Defense (Criminal procedure)-- United States.
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Lawyers-- United States, Biography.
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Capital punishment.
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Defense (Criminal procedure)
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LAW-- Criminal Law-- General.
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Lawyers.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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345.73/0772
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| LC Classification
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KF373.M45A3 2002eb
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| Cover Title
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Death work
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