DescriptionFor the full hour, Bob talks with Sister Helen Prejean about her book The Death of Innocents . Sister Helen is the woman who wrote Dead Man Walking and is an advocate for abolishing the death penalty. In her new book, she documents the executions of two men whom she believes were innocent, Dobie Gillis Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Dell in Virginia. (Broadcast Date: January 12, 2005)…
DescriptionAlan Dershowitz has selected his best newspaper columns, articles, and essays and added original commentary to present a highly spirited discussion about the most compelling issues of our time. Continuing his well-known style of studied audacity, Dershowitz addresses judges, justices, juries, and the courts. Among the controversial issues discussed are anti-Semitism, freedom of expression, individual liberties, capital punishment, abortion, and the "right to die" movement. As always, Dershowitz says what's on his mind and backs it up with convincing and logical arguments.
DescriptionFifty-nine days. That's how long Rennell Price has to live after spending 15 years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget has dedicated her life to f…
DescriptionMikal Gilmore is the youngest brother of Gary Gilmore, executed at his own urging for the murder of two innocent men. His execution by firing squad in 1977 was the first enactment of the death penalty in America in over a decade; it became the first of ma…
