A longtime spokesman for the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Rome-based progressive Catholic NGO, MARIO MARAZZITI co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. For many years he was a producer with RAI, the Italian television network. In 2012, Marazziti was elected to the lower house of Italian parliament, where he pursues a broad human-rights based portfolio. He is the author of a number of books in Italian and has written a regular column for Corriere della Serra. Marazziti lives in Rome. PAUL ELIEis an American writer and editor, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own- An American Pilgrimage which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004. His most recent book is Reinventing Bach. He lives in New York.
Mario Marazziti's book is a deeply moving and cogently argued account of why an abominable practice, the death penalty, should be abolished. It dehumanises those who use it. Its mistakes cannot be corrected. -Desmond Tutu You WANT to read 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty! Not only for its superb, well-crafted content, but because of its unique, colorful (very), amazing mover-&-shaker of an author, Mario Marazziti, whose friend I am proud to be. On the global scene no one has worked closer with me to abolish the death penalty than this man. These words are forged in fire! -Sister Helen Prejan, author of Dead Man Walking Mario Marazziti is an intensely humane, companionable man who may know more about the death penalty than anyone else on this planet. In 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty he delivers his knowledge with such clarity and charity that he takes the reader by surprise. This is a riveting and even, where appropriate, an entertaining book. -Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and A Saint on Death Row