After fourteen years as a death row lawyer in Florida, Michael
Mello has seen enough. Dead Wrong is a candid and compelling
account of his decision to withdraw from "the machinery of death" -
the American capital punishment system. Telling stories of cases he
worked on - including those of confessed serial killer Ted Bundy
and of "Crazy Joe" Spaziano, wrongly convicted but still on death
row after twenty years - Mello provides an inside view of death row
lawyering as no one has done before. He describes how he and others
fought to make the post-conviction system work, ensuring inmates
the right to a fair appeal. Alternately impassioned, angry, and
haunted by the victims, crimes, and criminals, Mello draws us into
the legal maze of appeals, death warrants, stays of execution, and
executions. Though Mello is unflinching in his recognition of the
brutal realities of capital crimes, his book is a powerful
indictment of the death penalty enterprise in America. He is
appalled at the lack of vigilance in a system that routinely
punishes guilty and innocent alike. And, practicing in Florida, he
saw the state's death penalty cost to taxpayers rise to an
estimated average $3.2 million per execution - six times the
average cost of life imprisonment.
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