A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was homosexual.
A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
In 1920s Chicago, night club sensation Velma Kelly and fame-hungry Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together--Velma for murdering her husband and sister after catching them in bed together, Roxie for murdering the man who tricked her into thinking he could make her famous--and compete for the same fame that will keep them from hanging.
The story of Matthew Shepard, a gay man from Laramie, Wyoming who was murdered for being gay, is constructed using transcripts from interviews with local citizens from the time of the crime and ten years later.
Anthony Ray Hinton shares how he was wrongfully convicted of two counts of capital murder, sentenced to death by electrocution, and able to prove his innocence and reflects on the twenty-seven years he spent on death row.
the inside story of the Trayvon Martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it
Bloom, Lisa
2014
"The ... journalist who covered the trial discusses the laws, culture and conditions that exist in modern America that allowed George Zimmerman to be fully acquitted after killing an unarmed, black teenager in his gated Florida community."--OCLC.
An introduction to the circumstances surrounding the murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who visited family in Mississippi in 1955.
the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
Abrams, Dan
Looks at the last trial of Abraham Lincoln, held in Springfield, Illinois, before he became the President of the United States, exploring the momentous meaning of this murder case, and more.
murder in Manhattan and the dawn of neuroscience in America's courtrooms
Davis, Kevin
2017
Using the trial of Herbert Weinstein, a sixty-five year old man who murdered his wife and was later found to have a cyst on his brain, the author discusses the use of neuroscience in the courtroom as a defense.
