Signed by the author, paperback, 52 pages - satin gloss paper - 7 X 7 inches (17 X 17 cm)
now available for $ 34.95 (Canada and US - shipping included)
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About the book:
The book presents 20 different cases of men and women who have been executed or are on death row in the United States. The images were originally cut linoleum block prints by Sam Kerson. The texts give brief overview of each case, and is written in English, French and Spanish.
We have been working on this project since 2006, when we first started googling, “executions innocents”; We read George Jackson's book, Soledad Brothers, and David Von Drehles' book, Among the Lowest of the Dead. There were plenty of cases; we looked for ones where the executions seemed especially unjust or in error, cases that were in doubt.
Our idea was that if we showed that twenty cases were flawed, possibly cases of mistaken executions, or political executions like Joe Hill, then our series would bring the entire system into question. We looked for cases that were complicated by racism, sexism, nationalism, cases of children and cases of people who were later proved to be innocent like Lena Baker.
We read through the big lists and we went name by name and read the histories of many cases.
To give you some idea of the scale of our national, history of executions, the Espy file lists 15,269 executions in the US and the colonies between 1608, and 2002.
Since 1976 when the death penalty was re-instated 1,367 executions have been carried out in the U.S. At the time of this publication, 2014, there have been 268 more executions in the U.S.
As you see, these numbers indicate an increased rate of executions from 33 executions a year during the first period 1976 to 2008 increased to 44 executions a year between 2008 and 2014.
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