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Series
Amos Decker novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution -- for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier -- when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime. Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may...
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on
keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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Description
"At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychopathic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky." Here guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Raven, the reluctant court-appointed attorney for Rommy Gandolph, a death-row prisoner convicted of triple murder, must face down an ambitious prosecutor, crooked cops, and a disgraced judge when he learns another inmate has new evidence that could exonerate his client.
8) The chamber
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Mississippi in 1967 Klan member, Sam Cayhall is accused of bombing Marvin Kramer's law offices killing his two sons. In 1990 just weeks before his execution, a young lawyer asks to work on his case.
10) Life after death
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
399 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. — who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three — were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the next...
11) Gallows thief
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
297 p. : col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Disgraced by his father's suicide and impoverished by the debts that drove him to it, Capt. Rider Sandman, late of His Majesty's 52nd Regiment of Foot, has been forced to sell his commission to support his mother and sister. Desperate to earn a living but with no skills besides soldiering and cricket, he has come to London in search of a job.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life -- one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast? Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents...
13) Gone again
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager’s disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi’s clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle’s execution, Sashi’s mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking...
14) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (189 min.) : widescreen 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Author
Series
Buck Schatz mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
395 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented. The future looks short and bleak. But Buck's past is under attack as well. After 35 years on death row, convicted serial killer Chester March finally has an execution date. Chester is the oldest condemned man in the United States, and his case has attracted the attention of NPR producer Carlos Watkins, who believes Chester's...
16) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson goes to Alabama to fight for the release of death row inmate Walter McMillian.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (approximately 9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. 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...
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