THE greater body of civilised society holds no truck for that great abomination, the death penalty.
Yet In seeking due process of justice there remain places in this world where they embrace the ultimate punishment - death by execution.
None more so than the United States where capital crimes see their denouement by gross, inhuman eye-for-an-eye final deliverance at the hands of the corporate executioner.
It is a bloody, gruesome process : death by the hanging rope, the firing squad, the guillotine, the gas chamber and now the lethal injection.
In the opening chapters of what should be a graphic, compelling reflection of this societal scourge Ian Woods gives an early focus on an unwitting, seemingly innocent man facing the executioner.
Mr Wood has been a career journalist, often seen on our television news screens.
He now turns his reporting skills to this new project.
A compelling read awaits.
Yet In seeking due process of justice there remain places in this world where they embrace the ultimate punishment - death by execution.
None more so than the United States where capital crimes see their denouement by gross, inhuman eye-for-an-eye final deliverance at the hands of the corporate executioner.
It is a bloody, gruesome process : death by the hanging rope, the firing squad, the guillotine, the gas chamber and now the lethal injection.
In the opening chapters of what should be a graphic, compelling reflection of this societal scourge Ian Woods gives an early focus on an unwitting, seemingly innocent man facing the executioner.
Mr Wood has been a career journalist, often seen on our television news screens.
He now turns his reporting skills to this new project.
A compelling read awaits.