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How they can keep doing it

4/2/2013

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Blogger Ted Lehmann has posted a review of Fighting for Their Lives today. Here's an excerpt:

Many people ask, “How can anyone seek to halt these executions?” In answer to this question and many others like it, Susannah Sheffer has written a heart rending and soul wrenching account of a series of interviews with twenty attorneys who have taken on the responsibility of defending these clients and answering these questions. ... Sheffer explores through a series of interviews the motivations, costs, rewards, grief, and loss experienced by twenty representative attorneys willing to look deep inside themselves to examine why they do what they do, what it costs them, and how they can keep doing it.
This book presents a carefully structured and nuanced exploration of the inner lives of attorneys practicing post conviction capital defense...
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    Susannah Sheffer is the author of several books and articles, most recently Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys (Vanderbilt University Press, 2013)

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