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Lethal Injection

Author : Jonathan R. Sorensen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756178
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Injection written by Jonathan R. Sorensen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing prisoners. The vigor with which Texas has implemented capital punishment has, however, raised more than a few questions. Why has Texas been so fervent in pursuing capital punishment? Has an aggressive death penalty produced any benefits? Have dangerous criminals been deterred? Have rights been trampled in the process and, most importantly, have innocents been executed? These important questions form the core of Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era. This book is the first comprehensive empirical study of Texas's system of capital punishment in the modern era. Jon Sorensen and Rocky Pilgrim use a wealth of information gathered from formerly confidential prisoner records and a variety of statistical sources to test and challenge traditional preconceptions concerning racial bias, deterrence, guilt, and the application of capital punishment in this state. The results of their balanced analysis may surprise many who have followed the recent debate on this important issue.

Lethal Shot

Author : Robert Driscoll
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789461014
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Shot written by Robert Driscoll and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, he also endured three tours in Afghanistan. The third of those will go down in history as one of the UK military's darkest hours, for it marked the first time a British serviceman has been tried for a murder on the battlefield since the Second World War. That man was 'Marine A', Sergeant Alexander Blackman, Rob Driscoll's friend and fellow NCO in 42 Commando, and on the day in question they were commanding patrols within a few hundred yards of each other. Few men know what really went on that day in Helmand Province. Rob Driscoll is one, and, like Blackman, knew only too well the privations and frustrations of fighting an ubiquitous and tenacious enemy without sufficient resources and support. Yet Lethal Shot is more than a compelling insight into one of the most controversial and divisive cases in recent military history. It is a clear-eyed account of life on active service with the Royal Marines, of incursions into war-torn countries where chaos and anarchy ruled - and of men risking their lives daily only too often to find that they would not be backed up by politicians at home. In charting its author's career as a Royal Marine Commando, it unflinchingly demonstrates the real-life horrors of engaging at close quarters with enemies such as the Taliban. Rob Driscoll received a Mention in Despatches for his last tour of 'Afghan', the citation reading: 'He never bows to fatigue or danger and there is no doubt that his remarkable acts of selflessness saved a number of lives for which he deserves significant formal recognition.'

Lethal Injection

Author : Jim Nisbet
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590205863
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Injection written by Jim Nisbet and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overlook is remedying that with this paperback- the first of nine publications that will make up a Nisbet revolution. It's about as noir as you can get. In a bleak Texas prison Royce, an alcoholic doctor administers Bobby Mencken's last "high," convinced that the convicted killer was innocent. When Royce's marriage crumbles he takes off for Dallas to search for the real killer. Of Nisbet, Germany's Die Welt wrote, "Neither Norman Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their writing been able to produce such an intensity as Nisbet has achieved." With sharp humor and a poet's ear for language, Nisbet's world may be bleak, but it is frighteningly real. Overlook is proud to bring him to a new generation of readers.

Kill Shot

Author : Jason Dearen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593421353
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Kill Shot written by Jason Dearen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it. Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed. "Bloodthirsty" is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Though NECC chief Barry Cadden called his company the "Ferrari of Compounders," it was a slapdash operation of unqualified staff, mold-ridden lab surfaces, and hastily made medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. Once inside some of its human hosts, the fungus traveled through the tough tissue around the spine and wormed upward to the "deep brain," our control center for balance, breath, and the vital motor functions of life. Now, investigative journalist Jason Dearen turns a spotlight on this tragedy--the victims, the heroes, and the perpetrators--and the legal loopholes that allowed it to occur. Kill Shot forces a powerful but unchecked industry out of the shadows.

So Long as They Die

Author :
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Long as They Die written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2006 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommendations. To state and federal corrections agencies - To state legislators and the U.S. Congress. -- I. Development of lethal injection protocols. Oklahoma - Texas - Tennessee - Lethal injection machines - Public access to lethal injection protocols. -- II. Lethal injection drugs. Potassium chloride - Pancuronium bromide - Sodium thiopental - The failure to review protocols. -- III. Lethal injection procedures. Qualifications of execution team - Checking the IV equipment - Level of anesthesia not monitored. -- IV. Physician participation in executions and medical ethics. -- V. Case study: Morales v. Hickman. -- VI. Botched executions. -- VII. International human rights and U.S. constitutional law. International human rights law - U.S. Constitutional law. -- Appendix A: State Execution Methods. -- Acknowledgements.

Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503634515
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but. From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution's prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing them in the future. However, since the earliest executions, abolitionists have fought against this state-sanctioned killing, arguing, among other things, that the methods of execution have frequently been just as gruesome as the crimes meriting their use. Lethal injection was first introduced in order to quell such objections, but, as Austin Sarat shows in this brief history, its supporters' commitment to painless and humane death has never been certain. This book tells the story of lethal injection's earliest iterations in the United States, starting with New York state's rejection of that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts lethal injection's return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on rare data, he makes the case that lethal injections during this time only became more unreliable, inefficient, and more frequently botched. Beyond his stirring narrative history, Sarat mounts a comprehensive condemnation of the state-level maneuvering in response to such mishaps, whereby death penalty states adopted secrecy statutes and adjusted their execution protocols to make it harder to identify and observe lethal injection's flaws. What was once touted as America's most humane execution method is now its most unreliable one. What was once a model of efficiency in the grim business of state killing is now marked by mayhem. The book concludes by critically examining the place of lethal injection, and the death penalty writ large, today.

Lethal Force

Author : The Washington Post
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1682303756
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Force written by The Washington Post and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the media began to pay greater attention to deadly interactions between black men and the law. But when reporters tried to get to the bottom of some basic questions—how often do police shoot people? Who are the victims? Are officers ever charged with crimes?—they came up blank. Police departments were not required to report these statistics to the FBI. The Washington Post set out to track every fatal shooting by an on-duty officer in 2015. Its database chronicled the shootings in real time, using news reports and other public sources. It compiled a trove of data, from the race of the person killed, whether the person was armed when killed, to whether the person was purported to have threatened the officer prior to being killed. The results found by the Post are shocking and haunting, from the sheer breadth of shootings by police in the U.S. to the stories of those killed. And its call to reform is being heeded. This groundbreaking book will radically alter how you view confrontation and accountability within the ranks, and offer a new perspective going forward.

Lethal Guardian

Author : M. William Phelps
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786027207
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Guardian written by M. William Phelps and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex true-crime story of a Connecticut lawyer who had her brother-in-law killed, by the New York Times bestselling author of Perfect Poison. On a cold spring night in 1994, passing motorists discovered the bullet-riddled body of Anson “Buzz” Clinton along an interstate's exit ramp in Connecticut. Buzz, a former exotic dancer, was married to Kim Carpenter, whose family believed he was an unfit guardian for Kim's daughter, Rebecca. Kim's parents had unsuccessfully sued for custody. Kim's sister, Beth Ann Carpenter—a bright, beautiful real-estate lawyer—became convinced that only Buzz's death would ensure Rebecca's safety. Investigating detectives soon uncovered a twisted trail of murder for hire, obsession, manipulation, and secrets that would tear more than one family apart. The aftermath of this brutal crime would set investigators and prosecutors on a long and twisted path strewn with lies, treachery, and deceit that would cross the Atlantic Ocean before finally bringing justice home. Praise for Lethal Guardian “An intense roller coaster of a crime story . . . complex, with a plethora of twists and turns worthy of any great detective mystery, and yet so well-laid out, so crisply written with such detail to character and place that it reads more like a novel than your standard nonfiction crime book.” —Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Monster Includes sixteen pages of revealing photos

Lethal Force

Author : Tony Long
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473529867
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Force written by Tony Long and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Long was the best ‘shot’ the Met ever had. Under the codename ‘Echo 7’, he was ‘licenced to kill’ bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he opened fire on a suspect to save a four-year-old girl whose mother had been stabbed to death by her assailant. Two years later he was involved in another high profile shooting while confronting three armed criminals. On both occasions Tony was commended by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. But in the spring of 2005, coming face to face with suspected drug dealer and armed robber Azelle Rodney, a volley of point blank shots would bring his career crashing to an end, tarnish his reputation and leave him fighting a murder charge and possible life sentence. From life or death cases and botched operations to political fallouts, this book charts the controversial career from rookie seventies beat cop to Long's command of SO19 – the Met’s most elite specialist firearms unit. Long’s personal testimony and professional insight raises serious issues about the duties, pressures and responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of those we task to risk their lives, and take the lives of others, in our name.

Long, Lean and Lethal

Author : Lorie O'Clare
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429958332
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Long, Lean and Lethal written by Lorie O'Clare and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Rain Huxtable works alone, and she likes it that way. But when a fourth spouse turns up dead in Lincoln, Nebraska, Rain's superiors call in help from the FBI. They've either got a serial killer or a hired murderer on their hands, and their solution is to team Rain up with Special Agent Noah Kayne—and send them undercover as a married couple. Noah is infuriating...and infuriatingly attractive. Rain wants no part of this charade, but with four people dead under suspiciously similar circumstances in a matter of months, she has no choice but to play the part of a doting wife and investigate a close-knit group of suburban couples. It's hard enough to keep up a professional facade when the heat between her and Noah burns so dangerously. But it may be even more dangerous for Rain to let her guard down once she realizes that the couples involved are playing a very sordid—and deadly—game ...

Caught in the Crosshair - Riveting tales of four lethal snipers

Author : Edgar Wollstone
Publisher : AJS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caught in the Crosshair - Riveting tales of four lethal snipers written by Edgar Wollstone and published by AJS. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say it’s not the target but the hunt that matters. Sniping and hunting are similar in many ways; both hunter and a sniper need to be adept at stealth and should have pinpoint marksmanship. Snipers have helped their country to grab victory from the jaws of an abysmal defeat. With one deadly shot, they make the impossible, possible. Be it Carlos Hathcock, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Simo hayha, Chris Kyle, they have all sacrificed all that they hold dear for serving their country. There is any number of deadly snipers, but this book tells the tale of four such individuals who have achieved such stupendous feat that it is unfathomable.

Lethal Risks and New Zealand Police / Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa

Author : Richard S. Shortt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031455312
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Risks and New Zealand Police / Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa written by Richard S. Shortt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lethal risks faced by police and traffic officers in Aotearoa New Zealand. It tracks lethal risk volume and type across 134 years of the New Zealand Police/Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa’s 137-year existence. Using data gathered from public records, official government reporting, and comparative studies, it reveals the current situation with regards to lethal risks from 1886 to 2019. The book identifies and presents two lethal risk hierarchies, the first for the period 1886-1999 and the second for the period 2000-2019. The hierarchies establish that the lethal risks faced come from: • Firearms • Assaults • And, potentially, Cutting/Stabbing attacks It determines that the nature of lethal risk has not changed, but rather the volume has reduced, meaning today’s officers are less likely to be harmed by lethal risk encounters than their predecessors were. This volume is an ideal starting point for researchers and practitioners interested in developing further scholarly research on lethal force and lethal risks faced by law enforcement officers and the organization they belong to.

Lethal Violence

Author : Harold V. Hall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104029491X
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Violence written by Harold V. Hall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This sourcebook provides base rate information and cases for each type of fatal interaction, then applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings.

Second Shot

Author : Cindy Dees
Publisher : Kensington
ISBN 13 : 1496748417
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Second Shot written by Cindy Dees and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A pitch-perfect adventure, filled with nuance and dire exploits. Take a breath, hang on, and enjoy the ride with this smart and clever heroine.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author Fans of J.T. Ellison and Julie Clark will be riveted by this exhilaratingly sharp thriller from a New York Times bestselling author and former spy. This taut, action-packed thriller introduces unforgettable heroine Helen Warwick, a highly skilled CIA assassin trying to navigate retirement, settle into a normal life, and reconnect with her family . . . in the midst of mortal combat. Retirement isn’t easy for a former CIA assassin. For fifty-five-year-old Helen Warwick, it may be impossible. Even Helen’s family doesn’t know the true nature of the work she’s done for decades—the secret black ops, the sanctioned executions. But her plan to spend time reconnecting with her grown children has just been blown up—along with her son’s house—by hired killers. Why is she being targeted now—and by whom? Years of eliminating the nation’s enemies one sniper bullet at a time have earned Helen powerful adversaries. Then there are mysterious new foes, including a psychopath dubbed The DaVinci Killer, who wages a twisted war with a rival serial killer to turn murder into art. And when he sets his sights on Helen, she may very well become his next exhibit. From homegrown spies to Russian mafia hitmen, Helen’s ghosts don’t just haunt—they kill. And staying alive long enough to make up for the past, and protect those closest to her, will take every ounce of skill she possesses . . .

Deadly MILFs

Author : Daniel West
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387411802
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Deadly MILFs written by Daniel West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passenger plane flying from Rio to London has been hijacked by a group of terrorists. The terrorists are threatening to use the plane as a weapon and fly it into Buckingham Palace if their demands are not met. The Royal Air Force is determined to shoot that plane out of the sky before it reaches London. The whole ordeal should be a simple game of cat and mouse. Except for the fact that nothing is simple for the terrorists or the RAF, when Dimitri and his band of misadventurers happen to be on-board that particular airplane. Book 3 of the Chech Trilogy

Stand Your Ground

Author : Caroline Light
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807064661
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Stand Your Ground written by Caroline Light and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.

Sniper Shot

Author : Barry Ozeroff
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1596879564
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Sniper Shot written by Barry Ozeroff and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2010-03-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE TRADITION OF BESTSELLING POLICE NOVELS BY JOSEPH WAMBAUGH TWO COPS ON THE ELITE SNIPER TEAM. ONE OF THEM IS A MURDERER. THE OTHER ONE KNOWS IT. ONLY ONE WILL SURVIVE. SNIPER SHOT is the dramatic and suspenseful debut novel about the ongoing and potentially deadly conflict between Ben Geller, sniper on the Stratton, Oregon Special Response Team, and Bob Slater, the team's secondary sniper. Geller is the primary sniper despite Slater's superior marksmanship skills. Slater, a world-class long-distance high powered rifle competitive shooter, lacks the patience and discipline needed to assume the position of primary sniper. SNIPER SHOT takes the reader deep into the world of this special elite team, and through a series of extraordinary twists and turns, moves towards a showdown that nobody expected between Geller and Slater. One of them is a robber and murderer, and the game of cat and mouse between them sets up one of the most exciting and dramatic stories in recent suspense fiction. Barry Ozeroff, a 21-year police veteran and former SWAT sniper, is a hostage negotiator and motorcycle officer with the Gresham, Oregon Police Department. Barry lives in Oregon with his wife and three children; and SNIPER SHOT is his first book. Look for the sequel in RETURN FIRE.