13 Ways Of Looking At The Death Penalty

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Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached decisions about capital punishment: ultimately that it is a flawed method of justice. Yet the United States - amongst others notorious for human rights abuse - remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty and urges us to join other industrialized democracies in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice.

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"Mario Marazziti's book is a deeply moving and cogently argued account of why an abominable practice, the death penalty, should be abolished. It dehumanises those who use it. Its mistakes cannot be corrected."Desmond Tutu

"You WANT to read13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty! Not only for its superb, well-crafted content, but because of its unique, colorful (very), amazing mover-&-shaker of an author, Mario Marazziti,whose friend I am proud to be. On the global scene no one has worked closer with me to abolish the death penalty than this man. These words areforgedinfire!"Sister Helen Prejan,author ofDead Man Walking

"Mario Marazziti is an intensely humane, companionable man who may know more about the death penalty than anyone else on this planet. In13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penaltyhe delivers his knowledge with such clarity and charity that he takes the reader by surprise. This is a riveting and even, where appropriate, an entertaining book."Thomas Cahill, author ofHow the Irish Saved CivilizationandA Saint on Death Row

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MARIO MARAZZITI co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. He is the longtime spokesperson for the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Rome-based progressive Catholic NGO. In 2012 he was elected to the lower house of parliament in Italy, where he pursues a broad human-rights portfolio. He lives in Rome. ; ; PAUL ELIEis an American writer and editor, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own- An American Pilgrimage which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004. His most recent book is Reinventing Bach. He lives in New York.