Robert Chesshyre
Crime & Punishment
Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America
By Clive Stafford Smith
Harvill Secker 376pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
There is a dark heart to American society, far removed from the sunny uplands of ‘have a nice day’. The ‘land of the free’ is also the land of the incarcerated, of the electric chair and the lethal injection, of three strikes and you’re out (life without parole for sometimes minor felonies), and of Guantánamo Bay.
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