Capital punishment : an indictment by a death-row survivor / Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair ; foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
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)
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-
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Table of Contents
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.
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.