Death and Justice
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge?
Read more
Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself.
Fuhrman seeks to answer these questions by investigating the death penalty in Oklahoma, where a "hang 'em high" attitude of cowboy justice resulted in twenty-one executions in 2001, more than any other state. Most of these cases came from one jurisdiction, Oklahoma County, where legendary DA Bob Macy bragged of sending more people to death row than any other prosecutor, and police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was eventually fired for mismanaging the crime lab. Examining police records, trial transcripts, appellate decisions and conducting hundreds of interviews, Fuhrman focuses his considerable investigative skills on more than a dozen of the most controversial Oklahoma death penalty cases.
Liked Death and Justice? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Death and Justice. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse Betrayal Shares true crime, nonfiction, crime -
How to Get Away With Murder in America Shares true crime, nonfiction, crime
-
Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill Shares true crime, nonfiction, crime -
Without Honour: The True Story of the Shafia Family and the Kingston Canal Murders Shares true crime, nonfiction, crime
