RT Book
T1 A courageous fool: Marie Deans and her struggle against the death penalty
A1 Peppers, Todd C. 1967-
A2 Anderson, Margaret Adell 1990-
LA English
PP Nashville
PB Vanderbilt University Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1641102640
AB "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 sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death."  Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie's time as a death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she experienced the highs of helping exonerate the innocent and the lows of standing death watch in the death house with thirty-four condemned men. "--
AB "The story of death penalty opponent Marie Deans"--
AB The murder of Penny Deans -- The birth of an abolitionist -- Marie and the men of the South Carolina death row -- Transitions -- The Virginia coalition for jails and prisons -- Inside the vortex of evil -- Marie and Russ -- Standing watch in the death house -- Marie and Joe --  The fight to save Joe Giarratano -- Roger, Earl, and the death of the coalition -- The final years
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KF9227.C2
SN 9780826521606
SN 9780826521613
K1 Deans, Marie McFadden 1940-2011
K1 Capital Punishment : United States
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 Social Science / Violence In Society
K1 LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing