| Title | : | Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Billy Wayne Sinclair & Jodie Sinclair |
| Release | : | 2013-02-20 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Nonfiction |
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| 1 | Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a D | Billy Wayne Sinclair & Jodie Sinclair |
| 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. |
