The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty By Ivan Solotaroff. HarperCollins, 232 pages, $25.00 Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.; Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.; and Bruce Shapiro. New Press, 174 pages, $22.95 Ivan Solotaroff states early on in The Last Face […]
Tom Lowenstein
Posted inArticle
A Perfect Killing?
For the last 4 years, as evidence has grown that the death penalty system in this country is rusted through, death penalty supporters have held one person aloft as the shining example of why we “need” capital punishment in this country: Timothy McVeigh. Point out that the federal death penalty has been sought almost 80 […]
Posted inFeatures
Against Execution
W hen Julie Marie Welch enrolled for her freshman year at Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma City, she registered for classes in German, Latin, and Spanish. Her freshman adviser reminded her that the school also offered classes in math, science, and history, to name a few, but Julie was intent on studying languages. During […]
Posted inArticle
A Conversation with Edgar Barens
Thomas K. Lowenstein has a conversation with Edgar Barens, the filmmaker of the documentary, A Sentence of Their Own. The documentary examines the life of Becky Raymond and her sons Donnie and Josh as they cope with the financial and emotional difficulties of having a family member — Becky’s husband Alan — serving a seven-year […]
