about capital punishment in which the two authors have done an outstanding job of recreating the capital crimes and the legal proceedings that ultimately resulted in the execution of 59 men and one woman in 2005 and 53 men in 2006 by the most advanced country on the planet. The writing is appropriately dry and the facts are kept at unemotional level which help to make the book appeal to people like myself who want to evaluate the totality of each murder on a case by case basis without having to get caught up in a debate about capital punishment. While at times the amount of information is simply overwhelming I must say that I am pretty impressed with this book which I think provides an interesting social commentary of America that makes you wonder just how advanced we really are.Product Description
This is a book about the taking of lives, grim events that no pleas or acts of mercy can undo. Herein, each and every crime for which a person was executed in the United States between January 2005 and December 2006 is described. This book is not easy reading. In some cases the crimes are exacted with uncontrolled rage focused on one specific victim and in others with a total indifference as to the life taken. What is common to all these murders is that each and every one resulted in at least one other death - a judicially ordered execution. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution dictates that punishment must fit the crime forbidding cruel and unusual punishment. Only by studying each and every one of these horrific and shocking crimes can it be determined if the ultimate sentence of death was imposed with all deference to the laws of a civilized society. Death Penalty USA 2005-2006 is Delfino and Day's third scholarly book and the first in a series of books intended to document all 21st century capital punishment cases in the United States.
About the Author
Michelangelo Delfino and Mary E. Day are well-respected research scientists who have been awarded dozens of U.S., European, and Canadian patents and who have published more than 100 scientific peer-reviewed papers. Praised by the press for acting together as the 'Internet Gadflys' Dr. Delfino and Ms. Day published writings that exposed a major Silicon Valley scandal; led to the arrest and prosecution by the U.S. government of a terrorist harbored by Agilent Technologies, Inc.; and alerted the public to the lawlessness of seven Santa Clara County California Court Judges including the infamous Jack Komar - actions that resulted in landmark California Supreme Court and Appellate Court rulings. Living near the sea, the couple travel extensively researching material for future books.
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