Honor killing : Race, rape, and Clarence Darrow's spectacular last case
"In 1931 Hawaiʻi, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Thalia's mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered--an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an "honor killing." The ensuing murder trial, Clarence Darrow's last, enthralled the nation and exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian "paradise" held captive by a racist cabal of military leaders and corporate magnates."
eBook, English, 2006
Penguin, New York, NY, 2006