{"product_id":"white-mercy-robert-turrell-9780325071268","title":"White Mercy: A Study of the Death Penalty in South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Turrell presents a novel approach to the study of capital punishment in 20th-century South Africa. \u003ci\u003eWhite Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on official acts of mercy rather than on miscarriages of justice. Turrell bases his absorbing narrative on a thorough investigation of government statistics, court testimony, and judges' reports. He shows that racism and sexism profoundly influenced death-penalty cases, but not in equal ways. Africans, whom white rulers considered the weaker race, and women, whom men called the weaker sex, entered a legal realm that both promoted preordained cultural difference and disproportionately granted clemency to females convicted of murder. What will perhaps surprise many readers is that a number of condemned white men went to the gallows because the court believed they exhibited the incorrigible instincts of the weaker race. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e stands alone in South African scholarship as the only book-length history of capital punishment. It is also a pioneering study in the field of gender studies. Turrell's sharp analysis and engrossing vignettes will be welcomed by students in graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses covering a range of themes from race relations and gender studies, to the death penalty and constitutional developments in the United States and South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Turrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0325071268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780325071268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.55h x 6.32w x 1.07d","brand":"Robert Turrell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001150619903,"sku":"9780325071268","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_042b27bb-a82d-4d3b-884c-2cdafb7a404a.jpg?v=1751600213","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-mercy-robert-turrell-9780325071268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}