Deathwork: Defending the Condemned

by Michael Mello

Book Overview

A gripping expos of what lawyers face when they defend prisoners in capital cases.

Legal cases are stories, and some of the most compelling-and the most disturbing-are those that take place on death row: the innocent man executed, juveniles and the mentally ill condemned to die, a smoking electric chair, a napping defense attorney, a senile hit man. These are the stories in which Michael Mello, as a capital public defender,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816640882
• ISBN13: 9780816640881
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"