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Let No Guilty Man Escape - A Judicial Biography of Isaac C. Parker (Paperback)
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Let No Guilty Man Escape - A Judicial Biography of Isaac C. Parker (Paperback)
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Loot Price R569
Discovery Miles 5 690
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Presiding from 1875 to 1896 over the United States Court for the
Western Judicial District of Arkansas, Isaac Charles Parker
attained notoriety as the "Hanging Judge" responsible for law and
order in Indian Territory. Popular accounts have portrayed him as a
jurist driven relentlessly by a Biblical sense of justice to
administer absolute authority over a lawless jurisdiction inhabited
by bold outlaws.Let No Guilty Man Escape, the first new Parker
biography in four decades, corrects this simplistic image by
presenting Parker's unique brand of frontier justice within the
legal and political context of his time. Using primary documents
from the National Archives, Missouri court records, and other
sources not included by previous biographers, Roger H. Tuller
demonstrates that Parker was an ambitious attorney who used the law
to advance his own career. Parker rose from a frontier Missouri
lawyer to become a congressional representative, and when
Reconstructionist-era politics denied him continued progress, he
sought the judicial appointment for which he is most remembered.
Although he sent seventy-nine felons to the gallows, Parker's
public hangings were actually restricted by federal officials,
commutations, and pardons, as well as Supreme Court rulings. In an
ironic twist, during his final public interview, the "Hanging
Judge" claimed he supported the abolition of the death penalty.
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