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Fates Worse than Death, subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. In the introduction to the book, Vonnegut acknowledges that the book is similar to an earlier book, Palm Sunday. In it he discusses his attempted suicide.
Fates Worse than Death, subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. In the introduction to the book, Vonnegut acknowledges that the book is similar to an earlier book, Palm Sunday. In it he discusses his attempted suicide.
Today, Abdelkrim Belachheb is serving six life sentences in a Texas prison under the highest security for what he did on June 29, 1984. Pro-death penalty advocates argue that he escaped justice through a loophole in Texas law that was closed by the legislature less than a year after his mass murder. Others argue that he illustrates why we do not need capital punishment--for his is a fate Worse Than Death.
"Gary Lavergne has turned his impeccable journalistic talents to a Texas multiple murder that has been mostly forgotten during the intervening years of mass killings and acts of terror. But Lavergne vividly recreates the crime and its aftermath and brings the reader inside the vortex of a horrendous and senseless crime. Through his meticulous and dispassionate presentation, he reveals what it was like to stand in the shoes of the victims, their families, the police, and the prosecutors, and finally, even the murderer. Lavergne's answer to what is r"worse than deatho" is an important and timely addition to the American debate over the death penalty.e"
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