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41) The last mile
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 2
Description
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
42) I want to live!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A screen adaptation of the dramatic events in the life of a "B-Girl," Barbara Graham, a vagrant prostitute and fast-living party girl, which led to a sensational murder trial and afterwards, her execution in the gas chamber despite growing doubts about her guilt. The background music is made up in its entirety of progressive jazz.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 249 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who became one of America's most respected Buddhist practitioners during his two decades in solitary confinement in San Quentin."--
44) Camara de gas
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
556 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. His grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 255 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silencefull of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven...
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 1
Description
"As a new series debuts, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch. 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents' influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. Yet he led a secret life, one that ended in a maximum security prison. All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own untimely and shocking death. Drawing on original and in-depth reporting, this is an explosive true story of a life cut short in the...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
536 pages ; 18 cm
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything-whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has...
51) Native son
Author
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1940's Chicago, a young black man's life takes a tragic turn after he accidentally kills the daughter of his white employer and then tries to cover it up.
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