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Book SynopsisA "groundbreaking" and "definitive must-read" on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

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Book SynopsisDavid L. Hudson Jr. is an award-winning professor at Belmont University College of Law, USA, where he teaches constitutional law and First Amendment law.Trade ReviewThis nicely curated compilation presents its well-chosen selections in a single, convenient, highly accessible volume and is recommended for collections serving advanced secondary-level students and university undergraduates. * Booklist *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Readers Guide to Related Documents and Sidebars Preface Introduction 1. Early History of the Death Penalty Document 1. John Stuart Mill Defends Capital Punishment (1868) Document 2. Supreme Court Finds Death by Shooting is Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Wilkerson v. Utah (1879) Document 3. Supreme Court Rules Electrocution Is Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment - In Re Kemmler (1890) Document 4. Supreme Court Approves Death by Hanging - Holden v. Minnesota (1890) Document 5. Supreme Court Fails to Find Racial Discrimination in Mississippi All-White Juries - Williams v. Mississippi (1898) Document 6. Supreme Court Rejects Death Row Inmate’s Due Process Challenge - Davis v. Burke (1900) 2. Rising Usage of—and Opposition to—the Death Penalty Document 7. Supreme Court Rejects Pink Franklin’s Constitutional Challenges to Jim Crow Law - Franklin v. South Carolina (1910) Document 8. Supreme Court Rules Criminal Defendants Have the Constitutional Right to Counsel - Powell v. Alabama (1932) Document 9. Supreme Court Confirms Constitutional Protections for Suspects in Capital Crimes - Watts v. Indiana (1949) Document 10. Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence on Perjury Grounds - Alcorta v. Texas (1957) Document 11. Judge Goldberg Issues Dissent Questioning the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty - Rudolph v. Alabama (1963) Document 12. Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence on “Knowing Waiver of Rights” Grounds - Boykin v. Alabama (1969) 3. The Supreme Court Abolishes—and Subsequently Reinstates—Capital Punishment Document 13. Justice Stewart Questions Arbitrary Quality of Death Penalty Sentences - Furman v. Georgia (1972) Document 14. President Nixon Reaffirms Support for the Death Penalty (1973) Document 15. Supreme Court Finds Death Penalty Constitutional Four Years after Furman – Gregg v. Georgia (1976) Document 16. Supreme Court Allows Convicted Murderer to Pursue His Own Death Via Capital Punishment - Gilmore v. Utah (1976) Document 17. Supreme Court Rules Defendant Convicted of Rape Cannot Be Executed - Coker v. Georgia (1977) Document 18. Supreme Court Invalidates Ohio’s Death Penalty Law on “Mitigating Evidence” Grounds - Lockett v. Ohio (1978) Document 19. Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Sentence of 16-Year-Old on Mitigating Evidence Grounds - Eddings v. Oklahoma (1982) Document 20: Supreme Court Sets Standard for Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims in Death Penalty Cases - Strickland v. Washington (1984) Document 21. Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Despite Improper Prosecutorial Conduct - Darden v. Wainwright (1986) Document 22. Supreme Court Rules the Insane Cannot Be Executed - Ford v. Wainwright (1986) Document 23. Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Despite Evidence of Racial Discrimination in Capital Punishment Sentencing - McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) Document 24. One Death Row Inmate Can’t Appeal on Behalf of Another Death Row Inmate, Supreme Court Finds - Whitmore v. Arkansas (1990) 4. Victims’ Rights, Moratoriums, and Other Issues Document 25. Supreme Court Rules Victim Impact Evidence is Permissible in Sentencing Phase of Death Penalty Case - Payne v. Tennessee (1991) Document 26. Law Professor Testifies in Support of the Death Penalty (1993) Document 27. The Subject of the Death Row Documentary Thin Blue Line Tells His Story to Congress (1993) Document 28. Justice Blackmun Reverses Course, Says Capital Punishment is Unconstitutional - Callins v. Collins (1994) Document 29. American Bar Association Calls for a Moratorium on Death Penalty (1997) Document 30. Televangelist Pat Robertson Calls for “Justice Tempered with Mercy” (2000) Document 31. President Clinton Issues a Stay of Execution, Citing Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment Cases (2000) Document 32. Legal Expert Tells Congress the Federal Death Penalty System is Discriminatory (2001) 5. The Capital Punishment Debate Intensifies as Courts Narrow Its Application Document 33. Supreme Court Rules Intellectually Disabled Defendants Can’t Be Executed - Atkins v. Virginia (2002) Document 34. Attorney Barry Scheck Calls for more DNA Testing in Death Penalty Cases (2002) Document 35. Illinois Governor Ryan Commutes Sentences of Death Row Inmates to Life in Prison (2003) Document 36. Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence, Citing Prosecutor’s Racially Discriminatory Use of Jury Strikes - Miller-El v. Dretke (2005) Document 37. Supreme Court Rules Those Who Commit Murder as Juveniles Cannot Be Executed - Roper v. Simmons (2005) Document 38. Opponent of Death Penalty Discusses Cultural Aspects of Capital Punishment (2005) Document 39. Legal Scholar John McAdams Testifies in Support of Capital Punishment (2006) Document 40. Heritage Foundation Analyst Testifies in Support of Death Penalty (2007) Document 41. Activist Bryan Stevenson Shines Light on Legal Representation Issues in Death Penalty Cases (2008) Document 42. Supreme Court Rules Child Rape Not a Capital Offense - Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008) Document 43. Justice John Paul Stevens Says Long Delays in Carrying Out Executions Are Cruel - Thompson v. McNeil (2009) Chapter 6: States Lead the Way in Opposing Capital Punishment Document 44. Catholic Theologians Issue Statement Opposing Death Penalty (2011) Document 45. Former Death Row Inmate Testifies Before Congress about His Experiences (2012) Document 46. Governor Inslee Issues Moratorium on Death Penalty in Washington State (2014) Document 47. Supreme Court Orders New Trial for Death Row Inmate Who Received Ineffective Legal Counsel - Hinton v. Alabama (2014) Document 48. Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida Death Penalty Law Permitting Execution of Defendants with Intellectual Disabilities - Hall v. Florida (2014) Document 49. Justice Breyer Questions Constitutionality of Death Penalty in Landmark Dissent - Glossip v. Gross (2015) Document 50. Justice Breyer Criticizes Geographic Disparities and Long Delays in Death Penalty Cases – Jordan v. Mississippi (2018) Document 51. Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order Ending Capital Punishment in California (2019) Document 52. Supreme Court Rejects Missouri Inmate’s Claim that Lethal Injection Violates the Eighth Amendment - Bucklew v. Precythe (2019) Document 53. Innocence Project Policy Director Urges Abolition of the Death Penalty (2021) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victims—many of them transient street hustlers—had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer’s identity. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana’s gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer. In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes? With direct access to the investigation, Dominique’s confession, and all of the killer’s body dump sites in throughout the state, author Fred Rosen enters the warped mind of a murderer and captures a troubled, disturbing, and broken life. As with the many other serial killers he has covered, including Jeffrey Dahmer (the Milwaukee Cannibal) and Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer), Rosen provides a horrifying and fascinating account of the lengths to which a bloodthirsty monster will go to lure and brutalize his victims.Trade Review“Although the FBI once considered him the country’s most significant serial killer—twenty-three victims!—the Bayou Strangler hardly made national news. Fred Rosen takes us to the bars of the French Quarter, the dirt roads of rural Louisiana, and a little-known subculture. The prejudices he uncovers turned reporters away, but not two dedicated detectives, who emerge as heroes. This book makes a fascinating read not only as true crime but also as a biting social commentary.” —Ann Marie Ackermann, author of Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee “How was one of the most prolific serial killers able to operate undetected for nearly a decade? Read The Bayou Strangler for the shocking truth.” —Jim Seeley, “Mr. True Crime” on social mediaPraise for Fred Rosen “The one true crime masterpiece I have read.” —The Guardian on Lobster Boy “A truly unforgettable story, brilliantly written. A true crime classic.” —Dan Zupansky, host of Blog Talk Radio’s True Murder on Flesh Collectors “A fast-moving, satisfying production of popular history.” —Booklist on Gold!

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Book SynopsisRobert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he has never presented his views on nonviolence in full-length book form. The Ethics of Nonviolence brings together his best essays on the topic, both classic works and more obscure pieces, as well as several important essays that have never been published. Holmes started his career by following Dewey and James, and then turned toward metaethics. The Vietnam War finally led him toward moral problems related to war and violence. For the last forty years he has been a great proponent of nonviolence and pacifism in the style of Tolstoy and Gandhi. If ethics is meant to be more than a purely academic exercise, the theoretical ethics of philosophy must be shown to be relevant to applied morality; the ongoing process of making moral judgments must add value to the world we live in. For Robert Holmes, no aspect of reality is more in need of ethical thinking and reform than the culture of war and violence that cannot be ignored. There are morally viable alternatives to this violence, Holmes argues, and he scrutinizes the sources and implications of such positions. Holmes shows that nonviolence and pacifism can lead us toward a more peaceful and humanely dignified world.Trade ReviewLong before Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam praised in print the insights of William James and John Dewey, Robert Holmes shed light on the philosophical importance of the classical pragmatists. Long before Larry May and Jeff McMahan debated the merits of pacifism, just war theory, and war realism, Robert Holmes made the case for contingent pacifism. Holmes’s distinctions among and insights concerning the various forms of pragmatism, pacifism, and nonviolence help debunk the easy dismissal of these views. The collected papers of Robert Holmes shed light on why those who summarily reject all forms of pragmatism, pacifism, or nonviolence do so because they continue to misrepresent these important but too often trivialized philosophical views. -- Rick Werner, John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy Hamilton College Clinton, NY, USAThis welcome collection of essays by Robert L. Holmes reminds us why he is the leading theorist of nonviolence at work today. His careful and thorough treatment of issues together with his clear writing and deep insight all further the inevitable nonviolent revolution required for our violent world to be transformed so as to allow a sustainable human future. Such important work deserves very wide circulation, readership, and consideration. -- Duane L. Cady, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Hamline University, USA, and author of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral ContinuumThe Ethics Of Nonviolence is by far the best book on the subject. Dr. Holmes has understood the nuances of the Gandhian Philosophy as few others have. His understanding of the philosophy and his ability to impart it to students is so unique that I often wish I was a young student again under his tutelage. Dr. Cicovacki must be commended for this outstanding collection of lectures. -- Arun Gandhi, President, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, Illinois, USAHolmes has written another cogent book on nonviolence that is also accessible to nonspecialists. His treatment of Dewey is excellent, as well as his reasoning about pragmatic and principled nonviolence. For readers familiar with his work, the appendix with Cicovacki’s interview of him will be much appreciated. -- William C. Gay, Professor of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte, USAThe Ethics of Nonviolence presents the clear and penetrating thinking of one of the foremost theorists of nonviolence in the world today. The readings not only offer insight into the development of Robert L. Holmes’s thought, but more importantly, they reveal the theoretical and practical heart of his ethic of nonviolence, woven from such disparate threads as the ethics of Dewey, Mill, and Kant, critiques of Robert Nozick’s libertarianism and St. Augustine’s defense of just war, and also Holmes’s own views on such contemporary yet eternal topics as evil, terrorism, and the philosophy of teaching. The final chapters treat readers to both his wisdom and his sense of humor. -- Barry L. Gan, Professor of Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. John Dewey’s Moral Philosophy in Contemporary Perspective 2. Consequentialism and its Consequences 3. The Limited Relevance of Analytical Ethics to the Problems of Bioethics 4. The Concept of Corporate Responsibility 5. University Neutrality and ROTC 6. The Philosophy of Political Realism in International Affairs 7. The Challenge of Nonviolence in the New World Order 8. St. Augustine and the Just War Theory 9. War, Power, and Nonviolence 10. Violence and Nonviolence 11. The Morality of Nonviolence 12. Terrorism, Violence, and Nonviolence 13. Understanding Evil from the Perspective of Nonviolence 14. Jallianwala Bagh and the Boston Tea Party: Nonviolent Roots of the Indian and American Anti-Imperialism 15. Toward a Nonviolent American Revolution 16. My (Non-)Teaching Philosophy Appendix 1: An Interview with Robert Holmes Appendix 2: Bibliography of Robert Holmes’ Publications

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Book SynopsisIn spite of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, many women are still afraid to say no to unwanted sexual advances and reluctant to report sexual violations. Far too many college students are being raped and are afraid to report it. Women are subjected to sexual harassment, sexual bullying, and sexual pressure every day on the street, at work, and at home but are unable to speak truth to power or to report these sexual offenses. I’m Saying No! is written specifically for these women—women who are still afraid to speak up for themselves, women who need to learn how to do so, and women whose personal history of child sexual abuse or sexual assault as an adult has wounded them so much that they have lost their voice. Here, Beverly Engel—an internationally recognized psychotherapist and acclaimed advocate for victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse—offers a ground-breaking program to help all the women who have been silenced by past trauma, women who were raised to believe they didn’t have a right to say no, and women who have spoken out in the past only to go unheard. Bold and timely, I’m Saying No! offers women the encouragement, support, and guidelines they need in order to become the powerful women they are—women who believe in themselves and stand up for themselves.Trade Review"In light of the #MeToo movement, psy­chologist Engel provides women with hope, comfort, and a num­ber of preventative strategies in reacting to and recovering from sexual assault....This comprehensive book supplies women and interested general readers with everything they need to know, from healing after childhood abuse to ending sexual harassment. Essential for all women." —Library Journal, STARRED Review “Beverly Engel knows how hard it can be to speak your truth when it comes to assaults on women, and in her new self-help book, she aims to help women who have fallen victim to these crimes. I’m Saying No! provides a guide for those who are too afraid to speak up and get the justice they deserve.” —Parade, "10 Life-Changing Self-Help Books Every Woman Should Read in 2019" “I’m Saying No! serves as an empowering guide for women as they learn how to own their ‘No!” Beverly empowers readers to stand up against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexual pressure, while equipping them with practical tools to do so. The author pulls from her three decades of experience as a licensed psychotherapist and advocate for victims to help women both build their courage and find their voice. Through well-researched explanations, real-life stories from clients, and helpful guides, Engel builds on the momentum of #MeToo and #TimesUp by encouraging readers to speak out." —Fupping.com, "8 Definitive Books on Feminism and Its Struggle" "Engel’s tone is chatty and empowering as she reminds victims that they can move past an assault, and encourages all women to become comfortable at expressing anger . . . The book does a good job of presenting strategies to develop self-awareness, recognize potential threats, and get out of problematic situations. A useful guide to combating sexual violence and raising women’s self-esteem." —Kirkus Reviews “Beverly provides much-needed strategies, information, and support for every woman who has or is still being traumatized by any kind of sexual misconduct, whether it is in the workplace or elsewhere. I strongly recommend it for all women no matter their age or circumstances.” —Gretchen Carlson, television journalist, best-selling author of Be Fierce and empowerment advocate “This book is an excellent resource that helps women who have experienced sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexual pressure to use their voice to speak truth and take a stand. An empowering book that I highly recommend.” —Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, author of The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls “In her latest book, Engel provides readers with useful guidance for saying no to would-be sexual abusers and encourages readers to practice what it feels like to use those two simple but imperfect letters—N-O!—a skill that benefits people of all ages." —Holly Kearl, founder of Stop Street Harassment “It’s easy enough to tell women to 'say no' but, in reality, there is nothing easy about saying no if you are a woman. Engel’s book doesn’t only shed light on why this remains true, even in the age of MeToo and TimesUp, but it provides readers with critical, pragmatic tools and strategies designed to confront and report gender harassment, sexual assault, and childhood abuse effectively.” —Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

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Book SynopsisShe didn’t see the hammer. For a fraction of a second JoAnne Jones saw a young black face, framed by a black hoodie, and then she descended into a place where she felt and saw nothing. Jones survived this sudden assault by a stranger, but it left her with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), fractured hands, and PTSD. Headstrong tells the story of how she learned to live with the daily challenges of TBI. It brings the reader into a life traumatized by violence and set in the context of a society full of violence and vocal, visible white supremacists. Woven throughout Jones’s account are the stories of how medical professionals, friends, family, and strangers became a foundation strong enough to hold her during the worst of times, and to give her the buoyancy to find a path toward hope.

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