Download or read book Dennis My Friend on Death Row written by Jan Tystad and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norwegian journalist and author Jan Tystad tells in this book about his American pen friend who has been on Death Row in Florida for 33 years. The prisoner tells in his letters how it feels to be isolated for so many years, and how he has been helped by listening to music player and follow the news and documentaries on TV. Dennis has showed an unbelievable strength in such an environment, helped very much by classic music which he can listen to for hours. He has also developed great knowledge about the world and the politicians who runs it, by listening to news and documentaries on his small TV in the cell. Dennis is only allowed out of the cell for five hours a week to walk in the forecourt. He finds happiness and friendship in letter writing and fight every day to prevent that the death sentence is executed. He hope that the governor of Florida will change the sentence to life prisonment, which would mean that he will be a free man, the life sentence is 25 years in Florida.
Download or read book Dennis My Friend on Death Row written by Jan Tystad and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norwegian journalist and author Jan Tystad tells in this book about his American pen friend who has been on Death Row in Florida for 33 years. The prisoner tells in his letters how it feels to be isolated for so many years, and how he has been helped by listening to music player and follow the news and documentaries on TV. Dennis has showed an unbelievable strength in such an environment, helped very much by classic music which he can listen to for hours. He has also developed great knowledge about the world and the politicians who runs it, by listening to news and documentaries on his small TV in the cell. Dennis is only allowed out of the cell for five hours a week to walk in the forecourt. He finds happiness and friendship in letter writing and fight every day to prevent that the death sentence is executed. He hope that the governor of Florida will change the sentence to life prisonment, which would mean that he will be a free man, the life sentence is 25 years in Florida.
Download or read book Dead Run written by Joe Jackson and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summers are always stifling in southern Virginia, and they're even hotter on the Mecklenburg Correctional Center's Death Row when Dennis Stockton arrives there in July 1983. Charged with murder for hire, Stockton insisted he was innocent, but his jury sentenced him to die. In prison, he begins keeping a diary and it soon becomes his lifeline, nurturing dreams of freedom and publication as an author. Mecklenburg's officials had always prided themselves on running a secure prison, but that left them vulnerable to an ingenious escape conspiracy. Though indispensable in the plotting, Stockton decides not to run, betting instead on a new trial and exoneration. The escape of the "Mecklenburg Six" is dazzlingly suspenseful, as they take hostages, don guards' uniforms, and, staging a monumental bluff, make history with America's first mass escape from Death Row. Mean-while, Stockton notes it all in his journal. After the escape, a Norfolk newspaper editor, William F. Burke, Jr., writes to the remaining inmates, seeking information on the unprecedented breakout. Stockton's diary becomes the most revealing account, and when excerpts are published, a scandalous portrait of Death Row emerges: bribed guards, marijuana plants, homebrew alcohol, weapon stashes, unlocked cell doors, and jailhouse sex. Overnight, Stockton becomes the most hated man in Virginia's prisons for his exposé. During the next eleven years, he survives plots against his life and endures subhuman conditions. Throughout his ordeal he struggles to find his voice as a writer, while battling to gain a new trial and escape the "monster factory," his name for Death Row. As Stockton's scheduled execution nears, the case against him begins unraveling, leaving readers to ponder the true nature of justice.
Download or read book My Friends on Death Row written by Pajama Lady and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Friends on Death Row; Voices Silenced, One by One" is a book of letters from people on death row -- 31 of them. Most have either been executed or died from other causes. The letters were written by a wide range of people, with many different stories. At one extreme we find the letters of an admitted serial killer. At the other is a man who confessed to a large array of crimes he never committed. Some committed crimes of passion. Some may have been innocent of the crimes for which they received the death penalty. Helen listened to all of them with compassion and a non-judgmental spirit that allowed them to relate to her in a direct and honest manner. In her introduction, Helen writes, "the memories of many incidents have haunted me, and will for the rest of my life. I can still hear, for example, the boots of the official murder technicians stomping past the visiting room as I sat knee to knee with my best friend. They were on their way to test the electric chair in the adjacent room. That same chair would detonate by fire healthy living flesh. I remember him saying, 'I am half way to heaven.' A TV van waited outside to film the hearse. I was aware of the empty prison yard, and the un-empathic guards. I saw that my friend's lips were chewed up because he had promised to be strong for me. His final look will never leave me. Those sounds and images still haunt me."Helen's work with prisoners on death row began when she made a commitment in the back of a church to "love the unloved." As she later discovered, this was very similar to the vow made by another Catholic, Mother Theresa, which was to serve the "poorest of the poor." Helen's ministry began with a single letter to a prisoner on death row. Within a year, her list of correspondents had expanded to 50 prisoners across the US and in foreign countries. The most difficult part for her was losing so many friends needlessly. However, she was determined to live to tell about it, so that she could give a voice to those who were silenced on the gurney. That was her promise to the people on death row. This book is the fulfillment of that promise. Helen has written an introduction and a conclusion, but the bulk of the book consists simply of the letters that prisoners wrote to her. Spelling has been corrected, and in a few places, minor changes in punctuation have been made for the sake of clarity. But in these letters you will find the words and thoughts of the prisoners themselves.
Download or read book Over the Bluffs written by Lori Parker and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The 1960s and 1970s were relaxed decades. In California, it was no different. But underneath the surface of trusting individuals and peace lay an era of crime—brutal crime. In Over the Bluffs, Lori Parker details the events of two young victims to such crime—and the results of what came after.
Download or read book Dead Run written by Joe Jackson and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Punishment written by Billy Wayne Sinclair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Wayne Sinclair was only twenty-one when sentenced to death. Because of an accidental shooting, he spent the next forty years in prison. When the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty, Billy was re-sentenced to life without parole. Here, he offers a blistering examination of the death penalty and its origins.
Download or read book Journey Toward Justice written by Dennis Leon Fritz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Journey Towards Justice' is a testimony to the triumph of human spirit and how one man's extraordinary resolve, along with the wonder of technology, helped transform his life.
Download or read book Death Row The Final Minutes written by Michelle Lyons and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 12 YEARS, MICHELLE LYONS WITNESSED NEARLY 300 EXECUTIONS. First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville's Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates' lives before they were put to death by the state. Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States' most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins. Michelle supported the death penalty, before misgivings began to set in as the executions mounted. During her time in the prison system, and together with her dear friend and colleague, Larry Fitzgerald, she came to know and like some of the condemned men and women she saw die. She began to query the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and ask the question: do executions make victims of all of us? An incredibly powerful and unique look at the complex story of capital punishment, as told by those whose lives have been shaped by it, Death Row: The Final Minutes is an important take on crime and punishment at a fascinating point in America's political history.
Download or read book The Justice Knight Story Part 1 Unworthy written by Justice Knight and published by Justice Knight. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unworthy" is a life story of change. Breaking the chains of bondage and living in fear. Coming to the reality of life itself and even through the darkest of times, still being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel through all the heart ache, pain and tears that lie underneath. Life's not all cakes and roses, but it's what made me who I am. - Reverend Justice Knight
Download or read book Crimson Letters Voices from Death Row written by Tessie Castillo and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through thirty compelling essays written in the prisoners’ own words, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row offers stories of brutal beatings inside juvenile hall, botched suicide attempts, the terror of the first night on Death Row, the pain of goodbye as a friend is led to execution, and the small acts of humanity that keep hope alive for men living in the shadow of death. Each carefully crafted personal essay illuminates the complex stew of choice and circumstance that brought four men to Death Row and the cycle of dehumanization and brutality that continues inside prison. At times the men write with humor, at times with despair, at times with deep sensitivity, but always with keen insight and understanding of the common human experience that binds us.
Download or read book From Death Row to Freedom written by Phillip A. Hubbart and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged “eyewitness” through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well known to the Port St. Joe police. The book follows the case’s tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants’ eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American history that must be remembered, along with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Download or read book Now I Walk on Death Row written by Dale S. Recinella and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most influential finance lawyers in the country, Dale Recinella was living the American dream. With prestige, power, and unthinkable paychecks at his fingertips, his life was perfect... at least on paper. But on the heels of closing a huge deal for the Miami Dolphins, Dale's life took an unfathomable turn. He heard--and heeded--Jesus's call to sell everything he owned and follow him. Thus began a radical quest to live out the words of Jesus--no matter what the cost. In this quick-paced, well-written story, Recinella shares his amazing journey from growing up in the slums of Detroit to racing through "the good life" on Wall Street to finally walking the humble path of God--the path of ministry on death row.
Download or read book Death Row Texas written by Michelle Lyons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tells the story of a traumatic life spent witnessing hundreds of people being executed in Texas’ most infamous prison.” —Daily Beast “I can’t remember his name or his crime. What I remember is the nothingness. No family members, no friends, no comfort. Maybe he didn’t want them to come, maybe they didn’t care, maybe he didn’t have any in the first place. It was just a prison official and two reporters, including me, looking through the glass at this man strapped fast to the gurney, needles in both arms, staring hard at the ceiling. When the warden stepped forward and asked if he wanted to make a last statement, the man barely shook his head, said nothing and started blinking. That’s when I saw it: a single tear at the corner of his right eye. A tear he desperately wanted to blink away, a tear he didn’t want us to see. It pooled there for a moment before running down his cheek. The warden gave his signal, the chemicals started flowing, the man coughed, sputtered and exhaled. A doctor entered the room, pronounced the man dead and pulled a sheet over his head.” —Michelle Lyons, from the Prologue Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions at the Texas State penitentiary. This “haunting, dark and hard to put down” behind-the-scenes look at those final moments of life relates shocking true stories of the inmate, his/her family members, prison officials, the death-row chaplain and the victim’s loved ones—all of whom come together in the death chamber (Houston Chronicle).
Download or read book Executed on a Technicality written by David R. Dow and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system. It is these concrete accounts of the people Dow has known and represented that prove the death penalty is consistently unjust, and it's precisely this fundamental-and lethal-injustice, Dow argues, that should compel us to abandon the system altogether.
Download or read book Finding Life on Death Row written by Katya Lezin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this disturbing book, Lezin puts a human face on the debate about capital punishment." -- Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Saint on Death Row written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green—wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas—and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system. Green, an extraordinary young man from the urban ghettos of Houston, was utterly failed by every echelon of society—the Catholic Church, numerous U.S. courts of law, and even his own mother. But from the depths of despair on Death Row, he transcended his earthly sufferings and achieved enlightenment and peace, inciting an international movement against the death penalty and inspiring his personal hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to plead publicly for mercy. A Saint on Death Row is an unforgettable, sobering, and deeply spiritual account that illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the headlong quest for judgment.
