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In Cold Blood
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In Cold Blood

By Truman Capote ,

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The Executioner's Song
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The Executioner's Song

By Norman Mailer ,

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Burial Rites
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Burial Rites

By Hannah Kent ,

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I'd Know You Anywhere
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I'd Know You Anywhere

By Laura Lippman ,

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Truth Machine
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Truth Machine

By James Halperin ,

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Education for Thinking
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Education for Thinking

By Deanna Kuhn ,

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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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The Innocent Man

By John Grisham ,

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The Cost of Silence
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The Cost of Silence

By John Nixon ,

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Stolen Time: One Woman's Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death
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Stolen Time

By Sunny Jacobs ,

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The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months
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The 12 Week Year

By Brian P. Moran , Michael Lennington ,

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The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
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The Hanging Tree

By V.A.C. [Vic] Gatrell ,

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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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The Faithful Executioner

By Joel F. Harrington ,

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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death
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Let the Lord Sort Them

By Maurice Chammah ,

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A Time for Mercy
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A Time for Mercy

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Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois
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Until I Could Be Sure

By George H. Ryan ,

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Comeback
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Comeback

By Ed Brisson , Michael Walsh (illustrator) , Jordie Bellaire (illustrator)

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Shiver
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Shiver

By Karen Robards ,

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The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy
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The Art of Executing Well

By Nicholas Terpstra (editor) ,

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Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775
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Tyburn's Martyrs

By Andrea McKenzie ,

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Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France
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Seeing Justice Done

By Paul Friedland ,

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A Place of Execution
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A Place of Execution

By Val McDermid ,

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Sycamore Row
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Sycamore Row

By John Grisham ,

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Reversible Errors
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Reversible Errors

By Scott Turow ,

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The Sibyl in Her Grave
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The Sibyl in Her Grave

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Invitation to a Beheading
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Invitation to a Beheading

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No Mistaking Death: A Marian Warner Mystery
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No Mistaking Death

By Shelley Costa ,

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The Fear of Too Much Justice: How Race and Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts
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The Fear of Too Much Justice

By Stephen Bright , James Kwak ,

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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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Dead Man Walking

By Helen Prejean ,

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A Time to Die
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A Time to Die

By Nadine Brandes ,

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Cherry Whip
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Cherry Whip

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