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  • A Courageous Fool

    Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty

    by Todd C. Peppers, Margaret A. Anderson ...
    There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Crossing the River Styx

    The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain

    by Todd C. Peppers, Charles Peppers, Professor Russell Allen Ford ...
    The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty—now outlawed in Virginia—while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house during the final days and hours of their lives. In July 1990 he ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Slow Death of the Death Penalty

    Toward a Postmortem

    Edited by Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, Mary Welek Atwell ...
    Why the death penalty is in decline across the United StatesAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still have the death penalty, eight have not had an execution in over a decade. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Of Courtiers and Princes

    Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges

    Edited by Todd C. Peppers ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    Praise for In Chambers:"This new collection of essays, including some by former clerks, takes readers inside justices’ chambers for a look at clerkship life.... [T]he best parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of life at the court."— Associated Press"An excellent book... It’s interesting for many different reasons, not the least of which as a reminder of how much of a bastion of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • In Chambers

    Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices

    Edited by Todd C. Peppers, Artemus Ward ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    Written by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political scientists, the essays in In Chambers tell the fascinating story of clerking at the Supreme Court. In addition to reflecting the personal experiences of the law clerks with their justices, the essays reveal how clerks are chosen, what tasks are assigned to them, and how the institution of clerking has evolved over ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Of Courtiers and Kings

    More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices

    by Professor Barry Cushman, John D. Fassett, John Q. Barrett, Raymond S. Troubh, Arthur Seder Jr, Mimi Early Clark, Norman Dorsen, Earl C. Dudley, Jr., Fred Davis, Daniel Fischel, Thomas Kauper, Alan R. Novak, Monroe E. Price, Thomas Rowe, David Schulte, Steven Umin, Chad Oldfather, Bridget Tainer-Parkins, Rebecca Hurley, Nancy Marder, Craig M Bradley, Julia C. Ambrose, Kermit Roosevelt III, Laura Krugman Ray ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices. Going beyond the book’s ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • Love Gone Wrong (True Crime Box Set)

    by Gregg Olsen ...
    Series series Notorious USA
    New York Times bestselling USA seriesFlorida, Georgia, South CarolinaWelcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex and booze flow like the warm water that hugs the coast. Where teenage girls and their boyfriends kill their parents in the name ... Read more

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  • Hellhound On His Trail

    The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History

    by Hampton Sides ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers.With ... Read more

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  • Popular Crime

    Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

    by Bill James ...
    The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has been interested in writing a book on the topic for decades. Now, with Popular Crime, James takes readers on an ... Read more

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    A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

    by Jim McCloskey, Philip Lerman ...
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  • The Killer Book of Infamous Murders

    Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the World's Most Notorious Murders

    by Tom Philbin, Michael Philbin ...
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