Reviews for Freedom and Equality: Discrimination and the Supreme Court, Vol. 7

The average rating for Freedom and Equality: Discrimination and the Supreme Court, Vol. 7 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-19 00:00:00 Emanuel Collier The book is predominately a diatribe concerning capital punishment. Not quite the electrifying read I was hoping for concerning a shocking subject that I had hoped to get a charge out of reading (I just had to - somebody does). It does sport a nice photograph of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice who wrote the opinion approving the first use of the electric chair... Melville Fuller (Democrat). Much of the story focuses on the suffering of the 'offenders' with virtually nothing concerning their victims and/or the life-long detrimental effects those types of crimes injected into their lives. It is considered cruel for anything but a quick, painless, carefree death for a capital offender. Though 'unusual' would be a hard swallow in the light of history: Hanging, Beheading, Gibbeting, Drawing and quartering, Disembowelment, Dismemberment, Crucifixion, Impalement, Shooting, etc. being the norm in days past when daily crime rates for those as mentioned in this work were rare if not non-existent. Reminded me of an inmate from Folsom Prison known as "The Flea." He, at the time, was the longest consecutive period prisoner in the state, having never been out (others had more time, but came back and forth through those revolving doors of justice. He was being moved to Vacaville's Medical Facility portion of the CMF Prison due to imminent death from cancer. He wished to stay and die at Folsom where he had spent nearly all of his life. While I was working at CMF in those days, inmates made quite a fuss over the wishes and desires of "The Flea." They asked me my opinion about Flea not being able to die where he wanted to... I replied, "Well, the people he killed didn't get to die where they wanted to either." -And of course, there's today's world behind the razor wire... Medium-Security California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville 2015: "Nearly 15 hours after a riot at a Northern California prison, guards found a missing inmate sawed nearly in two, with his abdominal organs and most chest organs removed, his body folded and stuffed into a garbage can in a shower stall a few doors from his cell."

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-17 00:00:00 Alejandro Vega I found the battle between Westinghouse and Edison regarding what type of current would be used for the electric chair to be very interesting. Although I knew the history of the electric chair had to be a little political, I never suspected that there was a battle between two major entrepreneurs.