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Review: Fighting for Their Lives, Susannah Sheffer; or, what it’s like to be a death penalty lawyer

(I can’t do my shiny new review format in this post because Fighting for Their Lives is nonfiction. I didn’t read the end because I knew the end was going to have lots of people getting executed, which was just what happened in the beginning and also in the middle.) Fighting for Their Lives (Amazon, B&N, Book Depository) is about death penalty lawyers. These are the lawyers who come in after someone has already been convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and try to figure out a way to get them out of the death penalty. The attempt is…

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