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Capital Punishment - An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor - cover

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Capital Punishment - An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor

Billy Wayne Sinclair, Jodie Sinclair

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

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Summary

“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 twenty-one 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 forty 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.
Available since: 07/01/2011.
Print length: 270 pages.

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