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This month Tony Bornstein reviews Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois by George H. Ryan Sr. with Maurice Possley.
This month Matthew T. Mangino reviews Death on the Doorstep & other stories by Edward Z. Menkin.
This month Susan Elizabeth Reese reviews Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah.
This month Jon M. Sands reviews Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective by Carlo Ginsburg and Bruce Lincoln.
This month John Albanes reviews Suicide and Its Impact on the Criminal Justice System by Elizabeth Kelley and Francesca Flood.
This month James W. Carroll Jr. reviews The Chameleon Shuffle by Jere Krakoff.
This month Elizabeth Kelley reviews Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Christine Montross, M.D.
This month Tony Bornstein reviews Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America by Richard Gergel.
This month Elizabeth Kelley reviews Trying Times: A Lawyer’s 50-Year Struggle Fighting for Rights in a World of Wrongs by Terry Gilbert with Carlo Wolff.
This month Jennifer Sellitti reviews Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened by Jessica S. Henry.
This month Susan Elizabeth Reese reviews Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court by Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson.
This month David Patton reviews Gideon’s Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice by Jonathan Rapping.
This month Marvin Miller reviews “No Noose” by Musicians United to End the Death Penalty.
This month Jeffrey M. Gamso reviews Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison by Bruce Western.
In the film Moonlight, we follow the life of Chiron, a little boy who is black, gay, and poor. “Who is you, Chiron?” is a question put to this child and to us, a question that transcends race, sexuality, and class. Chiron lives in the projects in Liberty City (Miami) with his crack-addict mom. He has to guard against bullies. He knows his sexual identity but is unsure of how to treat it. He aches for love from someone, anyone. As a mother and a lawyer, I wanted to hold this child in my arms. Moonlight is just that — an embrace set to piano and strings.
