Death and Justice

by Fuhrman, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780060732080
• ISBN10: 0060732083
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-21
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge? Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself. Fuhrman seeks to answer these questions by investigating the death penalty in Oklahoma, where a "hang 'em high" attitude of cowboy justice resulted in twenty-one executions in 2001, more than any other state. Most of these cases came from one jurisdiction, Oklahoma County, where legendary DA Bob Macy bragged of sending more people to death row than any other prosecutor, and police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was eventually fired for mismanaging the crime lab. Examining police records, trial transcripts, appellate decisions and conducting hundreds of interviews, Fuhrman focuses his considerable investigative skills on more than a dozen of the most controversial Oklahoma death penalty cases.

Author Biography

Mark Fuhrman is the New York Times - bestselling author of Murder in Brentwood, Murder in Greenwich, and Murder in Spokane. He lives in Idaho

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Welcome to Death Row	p. 1
Frontier Justice	p. 17
The Guest House Murders	p. 35
Lingering Doubt	p. 54
Catfight in the Crime Lab	p. 70
Reversed Conviction	p. 89
Blindsided by Science	p. 106
DNA Doesn't Lie	p. 123
A Robbery Gone Wrong	p. 137
Helpless Victims	p. 156
The Wrong Man	p. 175
Over a Barrel	p. 191
The Factory Breaks Down	p. 211
The Impact of Violence	p. 231
Epilogue: "Heinous, Atrocious and Cruel"	p. 244
Macy's Death Penalty Cases	p. 253
Index	p. 267
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