| Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor Contributor(s): Sinclair, Billy Wayne (Author), Sinclair, Jodie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611450349 ISBN-13: 9781611450347 Publisher: Arcade Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Law | Criminal Law - Sentencing |
| Dewey: 364.660 |
| LCCN: 2011001610 |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.51" W x 8.28" (0.59 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A searing condemnation and a powerful guide to the futility and arrogance of the death penalty carried out in the name of justice." --Sister Helen Prejean Billy 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. |