TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinclair,Billy Wayne
AU  - Sinclair,Jodie
TI  - Capital punishment: an indictment by a death-row survivor 
SN  - 9781611450347 (pbk.)
AV  - HV 8699 S616c 2011
U1  - 364.66092 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Arcade Pub.
KW  - Sinclair, Billy Wayne,
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Death row inmates
KW  - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion
KW  - Pena capital
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Pena de muerte
N1  - Originally published in 2009; Incluye referencias bibliográficas; 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
N2  - 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
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