Don T Kill In Our Names

Author : Rachel King
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813531829

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Don't Kill in Our Names by Rachel King Pdf

"Rachel King offers us the stories of families who understand the powerful reality that taking another life in the name of justice only perpetuates the tragedy. I encourage others to read these stories to better understand their journey from despair and anger to some level of peace and even forgiveness."--Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking Could you forgive the murderer of your husband? Your mother? Your son? Families of murder victims are often ardent and very public supporters of the death penalty. But the people whose stories appear in this book have chosen instead to forgive their loved ones' murderers, and many have developed personal relationships with the killers and have even worked to save their lives. They have formed a nationwide group, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR), to oppose the death penalty. MVFR members are often treated as either saints or lunatics, but the truth is that they are neither. They are ordinary people who have responded to an extraordinary and devastating tragedy with courage and faith, choosing reconciliation over retribution, healing over hatred. Believing that the death penalty is a form of social violence that only repeats and perpetuates the violence that claimed their loved ones' lives, they hold out the hope of redemption even for those who have committed the most hideous crimes. Weaving third-person narrative with wrenching first-hand accounts, King presents the stories of ten MVFR members. Each is a heartrending tale of grief, soul searching, and of the challenge to choose forgiveness instead of revenge. These stories, which King sets in the context of the national discussion over the death penalty debate and restorative versus retributive justice, will appeal not only to those who oppose the death penalty, but also to those who strive to understand how people can forgive the seemingly unforgivable. Rachel King is a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington national office where she lobbies on crime policy. She is currently working on a book about the families of death row inmates.

Author : Susan F. Sharp
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813537870

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Hidden Victims by Susan F. Sharp Pdf

"Sharp’s book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty—costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to come."—Saundra D. Westervelt, author of Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense "Everyone concerned with the effects of capital punishment must have this book."—Margaret Vandiver, professor, department of criminology and criminal justice, University of Memphis Murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are considered by most to be unusually heinous, often sub-human, and entirely different from the rest of us. In Hidden Victims, sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges this culturally ingrained perspective by reminding us that those individuals facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, relatives or friends. Through a series of vivid and in-depth interviews with families of the accused, she demonstrates how the exceptionally severe way in which we view those on death row trickles down to those with whom they are closely connected. Sharp shows how family members and friends—in effect, the indirect victims of the initial crime—experience a profoundly complicated and socially isolating grief process. Departing from a humanist perspective from which most accounts of victims are told, Sharp makes her case from a sociological standpoint that draws out the parallel experiences and coping mechanisms of these individuals. Chapters focus on responses to sentencing, the particular structure of grieving faced by this population, execution, aftermath, wrongful conviction, family formation after conviction, and the complex situation of individuals related to both the killer and the victim. Powerful, poignant, and intelligently written, Hidden Victims challenges all of us—regardless of which side of the death penalty you are on—to understand the economic, social, and psychological repercussions that shape the lives of the often forgotten families of death row inmates.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780987228383

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Fidel & Religion by Fidel Castro Pdf

A bestseller that offers an intimate insight into Fidel Castro, the man behind the beard! · This historic encounter between religion and revolution paved the way for Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Cuba in 1999 and the rule change in the Cuban Communist Party (1992) accepting as members those practicing their religious faith ·

Author : Karen Human Rights Group
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1581127049

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Suffering in Silence by Karen Human Rights Group Pdf

Situated in the triangle between South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China, Burma is a country of 50 million people struggling under the oppression of one of the world's most brutal military regimes. Yet, the voices of its people remain largely unheard in the international arena. Most of the limited media coverage deals with the non-violent struggle for democracy led by Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi or the Army's repression of university students and urban dissidents, but these only form a small part of the story. This book presents the voices of ethnic Karen villagers to give an idea of what it is like to be a rural villager in Burma: the brutal and constant shifts of forced labor for the Army, the intimidation tactics, the systematic extortion and looting by Army and State authorities, the constant fear of arbitrary arrest, rape, torture, and summary execution, the forced relocation and burning of hundreds of civilian villages and the systematic uprooting of their crops. Three detailed reports produced by the Karen Human Rights Group in 1999 are used to give the reader a sampling of the life of Karen villagers, both in areas where there is armed resistance to the rule of the SPDC junta and in areas where the junta is fully in control. The Karen Human Rights Group is a small and independent local organization which has been using the firsthand testimony of villagers to document the human rights situation in rural Burma since 1992. Much of the group's work can be seen online at www.khrg.org. Kevin Heppner, who contributed the introductory sections of the book, is a Canadian volunteer who founded KHRG in 1992 and still serves as its coordinator. Claudio Delang, who edited this book, has a keen interest in Karen life and customs. He is currently completing a PhD dissertation on the Karen and Hmong in northern Thailand.

Author : Alexander Arnold
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663204769

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Between the Eyes by Alexander Arnold Pdf

Oh, my sweet missy,” he said then pulled a knife from its scabbard. Crouching alongside Emma he reaches across and presses the old sharp blade against her neck then cups her mouth with his other hand. Emma is stunned. She can’t move. She is frightened! “Who is this man? What’s he doing? What does he want?” Her mind races! “God, help me!” “I aim to turn this territory around. I intend to run a second term for Governor, and the only way that I will be reelected is to control the rustling, robbing, senseless murders and capture the individual who is raping Women. I need this stopped...” US Marshal, Cotton Williams, is sent on a mission to stop the corruption in Southern Arizona Territory and to find a rapist. He has only one clue pertaining to the rapist. One word, “Missy”.

Author : Chloe K. Gott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350254442

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Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries by Chloe K. Gott Pdf

How are the identities of women shaped by religious disciplinary processes in Magdalene laundries and how do women re-engage with their sense of self after leaving the institutions? Chloë K. Gott situates these questions within the current cultural climate in which the institutions now sit, considering how they fit into Ireland's present as well as its past. This book represents the first significant secondary analysis to be conducted of 81 oral history interviews recorded as part of the Government of Ireland Collaborative Research project, 'Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Archival and Oral History', funded by the Irish Research Council. These were taken with women formerly incarcerated in these institutions, as well as others associated with this history. Grounded in qualitative analysis of this archive, the book is structured around the voices and words of survivors themselves. With a strong focus on how the experience of being incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry impacted on the gendered religious selves of the women, this book tracks the process of entering, working in and leaving a laundry, explored through the lens of epistemic injustice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : WISC:89076718014

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The Witness by Anonim Pdf

Author : John T. Peterson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499040401

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The Desert Sanction by John T. Peterson Pdf

In the Arizona desert 50 pounds of bomb grade plutonium is hijacked. The Squad finds out that two bombs were going to be made and set off in Washington DC. The squad is led across the US hunting the terrorists that have the plutonium. Five canisters with 10 pounds in each one.

Author : Stephen Leather
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529367430

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Clean Kill by Stephen Leather Pdf

'Enthralling' Financial Times *** 'Explosive' The Sun *** 'Grabs the reader by the throat' Daily Mail Terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives are on the line and the British government is refusing to negotiate. The pilot is Liam Shepherd, and only his father - Dan 'Spider' Shepherd of MI5 - can help. Shepherd and an SAS team fly out to the badlands of Mali to rescue the kidnapped Brits. But the mission takes Shepherd away from an investigation in a high security prison that is about to explode into violence. Hundreds of lives are at risk, and Shepherd is running out of time... 'Exciting action thrillers. It's like being there yourself' Chris Ryan 'Breath-taking pace' Shots

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 5991 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:4064066394653

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The Testimonies of Slaves by Work Projects Administration Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously collection of hundreds of life stories, recorded interviews and incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from the American southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 6002 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547679011

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The Voices From The Margins: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves by Work Projects Administration Pdf

Good Press presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves from 17 American States". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Step back in time and meet everyday people from another era: This edition brings to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from 17 U.S. southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 6001 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547811572

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The Voices From The Past – Hundreds of Testimonies by Former Slaves In One Volume by Work Projects Administration Pdf

After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the living former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 US states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. This edition brings to you the complete collection of first hand experiences and voices from the past that makes one question whether is it safe to forget or keep the memories alive for bigger battles ahead. A must read for everyone who is interested in US History, race relations and authentic historical research. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09644601

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Presidential Election of 1876 by Anonim Pdf

Author : James A. Marshall
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595526260

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Hang Man by James A. Marshall Pdf

There is a killer loose in Chicago. He goes by the name of Alan. He is playing a bloody game with the Chicago PD. Each one of his victims that is killed by Dissection gas two letters of their name that goes into his real name. Can the Chicago police figure out his real identity or will he get away just to return later and terrorize the good in Chicago?

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 6001 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547811657

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Dem Days Was Hell - Recorded Testimonies of Former Slaves from 17 U.S. States by Work Projects Administration Pdf

Step back in time and meet everyday people from another era: This edition brings to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from 17 U.S. southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia