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Justice in America is dealt out not blindly, but selectively. "People have been sentenced to death not because they have been found to be uncontrollably violent but because they were hopelessly poor.... They are the losers in an arbitrary lottery", says the author.Other contributors include Senator Edward Kennedy, Mike Farrell, Mario Cuomo, Hugo Bedau, Tom Wicker, Peter Gabriel, Watt Espy, Coretta Scott King, and many others.Dicks, Shirley is the author of 'Congregation of the Condemned Voices Against the Death Penalty' with ISBN 9780879759704 and ISBN 0879759704.
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