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<p> A slim volume of indelible impressions. . . . Highly recommended. - Library Journal ,

"""Startling."" --Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Unusually intimate and powerful."" --New York Times ""A slim volume of indelible impressions... Highly recommended."" --Library Journal ""Gripping... I could not put this book down."" --Jimmy Breslin ""Masterfully opens pathways for thought."" --The Nation ""If the initial response to Christianson's book and exhibit are any indication, Condemned may further erode support for capital punishment."" --Village Voice ""The important achievement of Condemned is not in theorizing about the death penalty ... it is in forcing the reader to look at it up close and thus get a firmer sense of what it really, truly is. If you favor the death penalty, you ought to know exactly what it is you favor. Based on the book, I will tell you this: It is a horror."" --Scripps Howard News Service ""This is a rare book-haunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent."" --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed"

<p> A haunting experience. Combining the clinical virtuosity of an exhumation with the fascination of an archeological dig, it delivers a powerful intellectual message about the death penalty. Among the most vicious features of capital punishment are the veils of secrecy and forgetting with which we shroud the rituals of execution. Condemned tears away those veils and makes us take a hard, cold look at the human realities they try to hide.

A haunting experience. Combining the clinical virtuosity of an exhumation with the fascination of an archeological dig, it delivers a powerful intellectual message about the death penalty. Among the most vicious features of capital punishment are the veils of secrecy and forgetting with which we shroud the rituals of execution. Condemned tears away those veils and makes us take a hard, cold look at the human realities they try to hide. -Anthony G. Amsterdam,Professor of Law at New York University School of Law Simply by presenting excerpts from the state's own internal files, this book offers some of the most compelling evidence against the death penalty. -Mario Cuomo,former Governor of New York Unusually intimate and powerful. -New York Times A slim volume of indelible impressions... Highly recommended. -Library Journal This is a rare book-haunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent. -William Kennedy,author of Ironweed

<p> Well-researched work employing sociological, literary, and theological perspectives. - Choice ,

""Startling."" --Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Unusually intimate and powerful."" --New York Times ""A slim volume of indelible impressions... Highly recommended."" --Library Journal ""Gripping... I could not put this book down."" --Jimmy Breslin ""Masterfully opens pathways for thought."" --The Nation ""If the initial response to Christianson's book and exhibit are any indication, Condemned may further erode support for capital punishment."" --Village Voice ""The important achievement of Condemned is not in theorizing about the death penalty ... it is in forcing the reader to look at it up close and thus get a firmer sense of what it really, truly is. If you favor the death penalty, you ought to know exactly what it is you favor. Based on the book, I will tell you this: It is a horror."" --Scripps Howard News Service ""This is a rare book-haunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent."" --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed

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Scott Christianson is the author of Notorious Prison: Inside the World's Most Feared Institutions and Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (NYU Press, 1999). A longtime investigative reporter, his articles have appeared in The New York Times, the The Washington Post, The Nation, the Criminal Law Bulletin and many other publications. Since the author began this project, six of the convictions discussed in Innocent have been overturned.

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