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Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-
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Capital punishment -- United States.
Death row inmates -- United States.
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Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-
Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-
Capital punishment -- United States.
Death row inmates -- United States.
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Capital punishment : an indictment by a death-row survivor / Billy Wayne
Sinclair
and
Jodie
Sinclair
; foreword by Helen Prejean.
by
Sinclair
, Billy Wayne, 1945-
Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Hacette Book Group, c2009.
Call #:
364.66 S616c
Subjects
Sinclair
, Billy Wayne, 1945-
Capital punishment -- United States.
Death row inmates -- United States.
ISBN:
9781559708999 (alk. paper)
1559708999 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvii, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
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.
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.
Other authors:
Sinclair
,
Jodie
,
1938-
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