Capital Punishment : An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor Paperback / softback
by Billy Wayne Sinclair, Jodie Sinclair
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“A searing condemnation and a powerful guide to the futility and arrogance of the death penalty carried out in the name of justice.â€â€”Sister Helen PrejeanBilly Wayne Sinclair was only 21 when he heard the Louisiana judge pronounce these words: "I hereby sentence you to death in the electric chair."It was the culmination of a botched holdup committed the year before in which Billy had accidentally shot and killed a man.
Billy spent the next 40 years in Angola Prison - one of the country's worst - six of those years on death row. When in 1972 the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as arbitrary and capricious, Billy was re-sentenced to life without parole.
Finally released in 2006, he now examines the death penalty in great detail, from ancient history - an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth - to the present. Informed by his own experience and his decades-long studies, this book offers important information about, and insights into, a subject that is as heated and controversial today as it ever was.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date:21/07/2011
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- ISBN:9781611450347
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date:21/07/2011
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- ISBN:9781611450347
