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Capital Punishment

by Billy Wayne Sinclair
Jodie Sinclair
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An impassioned, well-researched report on one of the most burning issues facing us today: the death penalty. 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.

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Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  • Release date: August 15, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781611450347
  • Release date: August 15, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781611450347
  • File size: 236 KB
  • Release date: August 15, 2011

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True Crime Nonfiction

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English

An impassioned, well-researched report on one of the most burning issues facing us today: the death penalty. 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.

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True Crime Nonfiction