A gripping, clear-sighted, necessary examination of the principles, personalities, and politics of a fundamental dilemma within American democracy with all the drama and intellectual substance of Turow's celebrated fiction.
Scott Turow is the world-famous author of several bestselling novels about the law, from Presumed Innocent to Reversible Errors, as well as the wartime thriller Ordinary Heroes. He has also written an examination of the death penalty, Ultimate Punishment. He lives with his family outside Chicago, where he is a partner in the international law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
Fascinating
*True Crime*
Slim, poignant and hugely powerful musing on America and the death
penalty . . . a forensic and yet heartfelt and even troubled
examination of the cases for and against capital punishment, and
its spare and elegant prose will leave no side in the debate
feeling short-changed . . . The book’s power lies in Turow’s own
initial ambivalence – and there is no reason to suspect this is
literary artifice . . . He never hectors or judges and yet
effortlessly steers the reader to the close
*Daily Telegraph*
Gripping and lucid consideration of America’s continued application
of the death penalty
*Sunday Times*
The strength of his book is that it is the product of genuine
open-mindedness rather than of an opinion firmly held from the very
outset . . . his book makes a case against capital punishment all
the stronger for not being strident
*Sunday Telegraph*
By the end of the second page of this compelling book I had almost
recanted my lifelong stance against capital punishment. Two pages
later I had regained myself. Most readers will probably feel the
same about the cases that have caused such joltings of sentiment .
. . this is how Scott Turow, with the consummate skill of the
thriller writer, portrays the reasons why a society might struggle
over the question of capital punishment
*Financial Times*
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