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Title: In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases by Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, Constance E. Putnam ISBN: 1-55553-197-0 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Re: Intellectual Dishonesty
Comment: Just some definitional clarification in response to comments made about the "intellectual dishonesty" of the authors:
CAPITAL OFFENSE - a crime for which the death penalty may be imposed. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Ed. 1999.
Black's is the legal system's most trusted authority on legal terminology, and while it is perhaps unfair and potentially misleading for the authors to have exploited a reader's possible misunderstanding of the nature of capital sentencing and prosecutorial dealmaking, the authors are correct in their usage of the term.
Rating: 5
Summary: The truth comes out....
Comment: This is a wonderful book documenting some of the most significant failures of Justice in the 20th century. The stories presented within are both enthralling and heartbreaking. I highly recommend this book.
Another reviewer accused this book's authors of "intellectual dishonesty" for including crimes that did not result in a death sentence. However, this reviewer erroneously stated that only crimes that eventually result in the death penalty are capital crimes. This is not true. A capital crime is an crime that carries with it the _potential_ for recieving a death sentence - not just the crimes that actually do recieve such a sentence.
The authors also stated in the introduction that they would be including crimes which, at the time they were committed, constituted a capital offense, but no longer are considered death penalty-eligible (like rape).
The only "intellectual dishonesty" present is that of certain reviewers who make false statements and tarnish the reputations of well-respected researchers.
Rating: 1
Summary: One of the worst books on the topic (typical Radelet product
Comment: I agree with the first reviewer. A blatant case of intellectual dishonesty. Michael Radelet is one of the worst researchers on capital punishment. I don't know how the guy got his tenure. Don't buy it!!
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Title: Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice by Saundra D. Westervelt, Saundra D. Westervelt, John A. Humphrey, Michael L. Radelet ISBN: 0813529522 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right by Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld, Barry Scheck ISBN: 0451203658 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Actual Innocence : Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer, Barry Scheck ISBN: 038549341X Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions by Stanley Cohen ISBN: 0786712589 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted by Martin Yant ISBN: 0879756438 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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