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Book Review;Capital punishment inAmerica 书评;美国的死刑; Justice, delayed and denied 正义, 姗姗来迟甚至无处可伸? Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong.By Raymond Bonner. 《不公正的剖析：一种谋杀案出的差错》,RaymondBonner著。 What sort of town was Greenwood, South Carolinain the early 1980s? It was the kind of place where aprominent white man could get away with shooting and killing a black man who walkedacross his property at night. When the local chief prosecutor, William T. Jones, brought thecase before a grand jury, he was not looking for an indictment. Surely anyone would havebehaved the same way under the circumstances, he argued. Surely, he told the jurors, theytoo would have picked up a shotgun. The grand jury did not indict. 上世纪80年代早期，美国南卡罗来纳州的格林伍德是怎样的一个城镇呢?这是这样的一个地方，一个身份显赫的白人在射击杀死一个晚上穿过他私人土地的黑人后并没有受到什么惩罚。在当地首席检察官William T.Jones将这个案件拿到大陪审团面前时，他并不是在寻求一种控诉。他认为，在同样的情况下每个人肯定都会采取同样的行动。他很坚定地告诉陪审团，他们也会拿起一把猎枪。陪审团没有起诉。 | 
