13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE DEATH PENALTY

Book ID/图书代码： 12070015B77790

English Summary/英文概要： Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied.

Yet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse—remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 各个国家和社区组织都在讨论是否该取消对于犯罪分子的极刑：死刑。死刑对于遏制犯罪并没有效果；在某些国家，死刑被当做除掉政治对手的工具；死刑对宗教，社会和少数民族有巨大的影响；一旦发生冤假错案，死刑带来的是不可挽回的结果。

但即便如此，美国和一些极度不尊重人权的国家观点一致，倡导死刑。在书中的13个案件中，马里奥•马拉兹剖析了死刑的不人道性和不理智性，并希望美国能像其他工业民主国家一样，废除死刑，废除这个在人类历史野蛮阶段才会使用的极刑。这是本会引起极大争议的作品，书中大量的事例会使读者的想法和心灵都受到极大的震撼。(XAT)

Awards/获奖情况：“马里奥•马拉兹的这部作品非常有说服力，他阐述了废除死刑的理由，例如死刑是反人道的，所造成的错误是无法挽回的等等。”——德斯蒙德•图图

“你一定要读读这本《看待死刑的13个角度》，这部作品不仅内容精巧，其思想必定会使读者感到震撼。我很骄傲能成为马里奥•马拉兹的朋友。我与他一起工作，倡导废除死刑，我们亲密无间。这部作品句句讲到了点子上。”——海伦•普雷让，《行尸走肉》作者

“马里奥•马拉兹是一位非常仁慈，友善的人，他可能比地球上所有的人都要了解死刑。在《看待死刑的13个角度》中，马里奥清晰的讲述，善良的思想都让读者惊喜。这本书非常吸引人，还很有趣。”——托马斯•卡希尔，著有《爱尔兰是如何拯救文明的》和《死牢中的圣人》。

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-still-executing-people-anti-death-penalty-movement-growing

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/12/13-reasons-to-stop-executing-people.html The timing could not be better for 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty, a short, intellectually probing book by Mario Marazziti, an Italian parliamentarian and activist against capital punishment.

Marazziti punctures the certitude of the “fair” execution by pointing out that since 1992, 321 prisoners have been exonerated by DNA testing in America, and of them 20 were on death row, waiting to die for crimes they did not commit. How many died before we had DNA?

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20150712_New_ways_of_looking_at_the_death_penalty.html

There’s no question Marazziti’s book will not change the true believers among death-penalty advocates. Ever optimistic, however, he is campaigning to abolish capital punishment in the United States by 2025.

For the rest, Marazziti has written an interesting, compelling look at the cultural and religious underpinnings of the death penalty and how we got here. More important, his interviews with U.S. death-row inmates - living and now-deceased - their survivors, and their victims’ families highlight the gray of a subject too many paint in black and white.

About the Author/作者介绍： 保罗•艾利是一位美国作家和编辑，作品有《你拯救的生活就是你的：美国朝圣之旅》，于2004年获得了玛莎阿尔布兰德最佳非小说作品。他最新的作品为《重塑巴赫》。保罗现居于纽约。

"Mario Marazziti is an intensely humane, companionable man who may know more about the death penalty than anyone else on this planet. In 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty he delivers his knowledge with such clarity and charity that he takes the reader by surprise. This is a riveting and even, where appropriate, an entertaining book."—Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and A Saint on Death Row

paul elie is an American writer and editor, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004. His most recent book is Reinventing Bach. He lives in New York.

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