Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow

Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow

A gripping examination of the case for and against capital punishment by a respected criminal lawyer and celebrated novelist.

In the words of Harvard Law Professor, Laurence H. Tribe--Ultimate Punishment is the ultimate statement about the death penalty: to read it is to understand why law alone cannot make us whole.

As a respected criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his recent service on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office.

Telling the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois's state-of-the art super-max prison and the execution chamber, Ultimate Punishment has all the drama and intellectual substance of Turow's bestselling fiction.

SCOTT TUROW is the author of five worldwide bestselling novels. He recently published a work of non-fiction, Ultimate Punishment, after serving on the Illinois commission that investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office. He lives with his family outside Chicago, where he is partner in the firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. Holter Graham, winner of AudioFile's 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy for Sherrilyn Kenyon's Acheron, is a stage, television, and screen actor. A recipient of an AudioFile Earphones Award, he has recorded numerous audiobooks, including multiple books from Sherrilyn Kenyon's sensationally bestselling Dark-Hunter series. He has also narrated audiobooks for such authors as Scott Turow, Dean Koontz, John Berendt, and Stephen Frey. His film credits include Fly Away Home, Maximum Overdrive, Hairspray, and The Diversion, a short film which he produced and as well as acted in. On television, he has appeared in Army Wives, Damages, As The World Turns, Rescue Me, Law & Order and New York Undercover. He received a B.A. from Skidmore College and an M.F.A. from Vermont College.

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ISBN 13	9780374128739
ISBN 10	0374128731
Title	Ultimate Punishment
Author	Scott Turow
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2003-10-01
Number of pages	164
Prizes	Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 2004
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