Runner-up for the 2000 Donner Prize Since Cain killed Abel, the crime of murder has fascinated humans. So, too, do murder trials. They enable us to be voyeurs, peering from a safe distance into the dark recesses of the human capacity for evil and deadly impulse, and allowing us to bear witness to the ceremonial punishment of wrongdoers. If the process of fatal...
Shortlisted for the 2000 Walter Owen Book Prize