A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket 393 pages Book Description "'"A blistering, well-annotated critiqueboth passionate and eloquent "'"-Publishers Weekly starred review "'"Death-penalty supporters-and opponents, for that matter-who do not read this unique insider's account of capital punishment as a capricious and nearly broken-down system will lay themselves open to the charge that they don't know what they're talking about "'"-Kirkus Reviews "'"Mello separates himself from others who have written about death row He is visceral, not cerebralOne of the nation's most passionate post-conviction lawyers "'"-Colman McCarthy, The Nation "'"Michael Mello is a poet, a storyteller, a wordsmith, and, thank God, a lawyer Dead Wrong is an incisive, probing examination of life, death, and the law, at once wickedly funny, heart-wrenchingly human, and surgically precise This is a book written in blood "'"-Mike Farrell, actor and president of California Death Penalty Focus Winne