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Author Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-

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

Imprint New York : Arcade Pub., c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.66 Si62c 2009    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Note Includes index.
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.
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.
Subject Capital punishment -- United States.
Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-
Death row inmates -- United States.
Added Author Sinclair, Jodie, 1938-
ISBN 1559708999 (alk. paper)
9781559708999 (alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000043243396

 
    
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