Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor

By Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair

Book Overview

"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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611450349
• ISBN13: 9781611450347
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"