Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor

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Publisher's Synopsis

"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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781611450347
Publisher: Arcade
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 364.66092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Weight: 279g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 20mm