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The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates Reprint Edition
Author(s): John Temple (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date: 10 Dec. 2015
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1496809130
- ISBN-13: 9781496809131
Book Description
The story of a tireless legal Samaritan and his warfare on the injustice of capital punishment
Editorial Reviews
Review
John Temple’s The Last Lawyer is a compulsively readable indictment of a fatally flawed system. It reads like first-class legal fiction, but it’s far more compelling because it is, tragically, legal fact.–Leonard Pitts, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald and author of the novel, Before I Forget
For years, lawyer Ken Rose has fought to save wrongly-condemned prisoners; chronicling the story of Rose and death row inmate Bo Jones, author Temple (
Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office) finds high drama in Raleigh penitentiaries, North Carolina backroads, cramped law offices, and sweltering courtrooms. Reviewing the original 1987 murder, the consequent trials and endless hearings, Temple creates an intimate portrait of Rose and his Center for Death Penalty Litigation as they trudge through a decade of work on this case, a typical example that pits the odds and public opinion against them: ‘To question capital punishment was to appear soft on crime. . . In court, one well-known district attorney sported a golden lapel pin shaped like a hangman’s noose.’ Ultimately, Temple’s account is a stand-up-and-cheer account of one man standing up for justice.– “Publishers Weekly”About the Author
John Temple is the author of Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office (2005), published by the University Press of Mississippi. His most recent book, American Pain, was named a “”Best Book of 2015″” in the True Crime category by Suspense Magazine. Temple lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he is an associate professor of journalism at the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. Prior to teaching, Temple was a newspaper reporter in Pittsburgh, Greensboro, and Tampa. More information about Temple and his books can be found at www.johntemplebooks.com.
