Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth

by Richard A. Serrano

Book Overview

A lost history of racial discrimination in America's capital punishment system revealed by 17 lives lived in the Fort Leavenworth military prison

Between 1955 and 1961, 17 condemned soldiers--8 white, 9 black--lived together on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison. All 8 of the white soldiers were eventually paroled and returned to their families, spared by high-ranking army officers, the military courts, the White House staff...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807060968
• ISBN13: 9780807060964
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"