{"product_id":"13-ways-of-looking-at-the-death-penalty-isbn-9781609805678","title":"13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty","description":"Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied.\u003cbr\u003e             \u003cbr\u003eYet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse—remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind.\"Mario Marazziti's book is a deeply moving and cogently argued account of why an abominable practice, the death penalty, should be abolished. It dehumanises those who use it. Its mistakes cannot be corrected.\"\u003cb\u003e—Desmond Tutu\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You WANT to read \u003ci\u003e13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty\u003c\/i\u003e! Not only for its superb, well-crafted content, but because of its unique, colorful (very), amazing mover-\u0026amp;-shaker of an author, Mario Marazziti, whose friend I am proud to be. On the global scene no one has worked closer with me to abolish the death penalty than this man. These words are forged in fire!\"—\u003cb\u003eSister Helen Prejan, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDead Man Walking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mario Marazziti is an intensely humane, companionable man who may know more about the death penalty than anyone else on this planet. In \u003ci\u003e13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty\u003c\/i\u003e he delivers his knowledge with such clarity and charity that he takes the reader by surprise. This is a riveting and even, where appropriate, an entertaining book.\"—\u003cb\u003eThomas Cahill, author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Irish Saved Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Saint on Death Row\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA longtime spokesman for the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Rome-based progressive Catholic NGO, \u003cb\u003eMARIO MARAZZITI\u003c\/b\u003e co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. For many years he was a producer with RAI, the Italian television network. In 2012, Marazziti was elected to the lower house of Italian parliament, where he pursues a broad human-rights based portfolio. He is the author of a number of books in Italian and has written a regular column for \u003ci\u003eCorriere della Serra\u003c\/i\u003e. Marazziti lives in Rome. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePAUL ELIE\u003c\/b\u003e is an American writer and editor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e which won the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eReinventing Bach\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302116020453,"sku":"NP9781609805678","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609805678.jpg?v=1767720179","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/13-ways-of-looking-at-the-death-penalty-isbn-9781609805678","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}