Ultimate Punishment
22 July 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In Ultimate Punishment, a vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment...
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22 July 2011168 pages
9781447207160Imprint: Picador
Reviews
FascinatingTrue 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 closeDaily Telegraph
Gripping and lucid consideration of America’s continued application of the death penaltySunday 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 stridentSunday Telegraph
