Capital punishment : an indictment by a death-row survivor / Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair ; foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-; Sinclair, Jodie, 1938-
2009
HV8699.U5 S475 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Capital punishment : an indictment by a death-row survivor / Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair ; foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
Author Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781559708999 (alk. paper)
1559708999 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Hacette Book Group, c2009.
Language English
Description xvii, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number HV8699.U5 S475 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.66092
Summary 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.--Publisher description.
Note Includes index.
Added Author Sinclair, Jodie, 1938-
Linked Resources Table of contents only
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The justice gene
Death row redux
Whim and caprice
Surviving
The cocktail
Slow and agonizing
Mistakes in last-minute appeals
Two cases of innocence
Another Texas DNA exoneration
Child rape
The killers of women
The crime victims movement
Youth violence
The saga of Louisiana's first post-Furman execution.

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