Capital and Corporal Punishment Nonfiction

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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 4.01 avg rating — 70,870 ratings
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions 4.21 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate 4.14 avg rating — 8,953 ratings
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century 3.99 avg rating — 4,344 ratings
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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty 3.64 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Forty Years of Murder
Forty Years of Murder 4.19 avg rating — 329 ratings
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America 4.11 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,492 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,405 ratings
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Last Words of the Executed
Last Words of the Executed 3.55 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty 4.11 avg rating — 855 ratings
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Last Words: The Hanging of Ronald Ryan
Last Words: The Hanging of Ronald Ryan 3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us 4.44 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
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The Last Woman to be Hanged: The Ruth Ellis Story
The Last Woman to be Hanged: The Ruth Ellis Story 3.47 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty 3.84 avg rating — 750 ratings
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Death Row, Texas: Inside the Execution Chamber
Death Row, Texas: Inside the Execution Chamber 3.75 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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On Lynchings
On Lynchings 4.29 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 4.65 avg rating — 642 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America 4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth
Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" liked it 3.00 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution 4.24 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South 4.34 avg rating — 234 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,788 ratings
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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty 3.76 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out
Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation
The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation 3.25 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Torture Report: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program: Executive Summary, Findings and Conclusions
The Torture Report: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program: Executive Summary, Findings and Conclusions 4.11 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America 4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings