Eugene Volokh, 7:55 AM]
THE DEATH PENALTY: A review in the New York
Review of Books, cowritten by the very prominent historian
Edmund Morgan, describes The Death Penalty:
An American History as a "remarkable book,"
"narrate[d] with extraordinary objectivity and insight"; the
author "sticks to the facts and takes no sides."
The author, I'm happy to report, is my own UCLA Law School colleague,
coblogger, and fellow Kozinski/O'Connor alumnus Stuart Banner. Though the
New York Review of Books review is quite clearly
anti-death-penalty, the book itself is indeed scrupulously objective, and
extremely readable and interesting to boot. Buy it! (Thanks to
How Appealing for the pointer to the review,
since Stuart was too modest to mention it himself.)
