Reflections on Capital Punishment: Brutal or Proportionate?
Commentary
What is the usefulness, morality, and appropriateness of the death penalty, especially as a deterrent and a consequence of carrying out atrocious crimes?
Published last year, “The Boys of Biloxi” is John Grisham’s new vintage legal thriller novel that deals with an important and perennial issue: the use of the death penalty as a deterrent and a consequence of carrying out a heinous crime.
Set in Biloxi, a city in Mississippi, it follows the boyhood friendship of Hugh Malco, the son of the main mobster, and Keith Rudy, the son of the District Attorney, Jesse, whose ambition it is to clean up the city….