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Ultimate Punishment

A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

Ultimate Punishment( )
Author: Turow, Scott
ISBN:978-0-374-12873-9
Publication Date:Oct 2003
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

America's leading writer about the law takes a close, incisive look at one of society's most vexing legal issues.

Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Capital Punishment
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 7.84 x 0.745 Inches
Book Weight:0.022 Pounds
Author Biography
Turow, Scott (Author)
Scott Turow is a writer and lawyer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 12, 1949. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1970 and an M.A. from Stanford University in 1974. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978. He was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served as a prosecutor in several corruption cases. Turow continues to work as an attorney.

He has written numerous novels including Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of Our Fathers, Personal Injuries, Ordinary Heroes, Limitations, Innocent, and Identical. His non-fiction works include One L about his experience as a law student and Ultimate Punishment about the death penalty. He has won numerous awards including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment, and Time Magazine's Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries. He will give a keynote speech at the National writer's Congress 2015.

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