Beyond the Last Verdict
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  • Votos 6
  • Partes 4
  • Hora 32m
  • LECTURAS 53
  • Votos 6
  • Partes 4
  • Hora 32m
Concluida, Has publicado may 05, 2016
What would it be like to be falsely accused of murder and sentenced to death?
What would it like to watch your child imprisoned for life, then executed by the state?

In two exclusive interviews by author Jamie Arpin-Ricci, you will hear the first-hand experience of two people who lived these nightmares. Ray Krone is a death penalty abolitionist and the 100th inmate to be exonerated from death row since it's reinstatement in 1976. Mary Puckett is the mother Matt Puckett who was executed by the state of Mississippi on March 20th, 2012.

You will also find a FREE chapter of "The Last Verdict", Arpin-Ricci's acclaimed novella on the death penalty.
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Never Alone

40 Partes Concluida Contenido adulto

It's been only a year since Utah became the last state to pass legislation granting age-of-majority sufferers of mental illness the Right to Die. When seventeen-year-old Koralee Benson wakes up in the hospital having survived a suicide attempt, her parents are desperate to get her help before her next birthday, when she will have the legal right to request a lethal dose of Repose7, a medication that has revolutionized the practice of assisted suicide. Dr. Crimm is the lead psychiatrist with Right to Life, an organization that promotes mental health treatment and support, and funds research into alternative treatments for mental illness and suicidal ideation. Right to Life was founded by the Wilkinson family, owners of tech giant Virtual Now, as a response to the loss of their own son to suicide. Their unconventional program combines the use of an experimental medication with a virtual reality technology that allows study participants to relive their traumatic experiences through the eyes of other people. Koralee is recruited to join five other teens from around the country, all grappling with their own demons, in an adventurous exploration of perspective, friendship, trust, and healing-possibly the only hope these suffering teens have at regaining the will to live. The country is engrossed in a recent news frenzy when seventeen-year-old Braden Ertz is found guilty of the murder of his fifteen-year-old girlfriend. He was discovered unconscious in her family pool with no recollection of the crime or his involvement in it. The country is already divided on his death sentence when Braden requests to stop his automatic appeals and be given the chance to take Repose7. When the judge overseeing his case hears about the experimental medication that could help regain his memories, he pulls R2L and Dr. Crimm into a battle of morals and ethics.