Billy Wayne Sinclair
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English
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Sentenced to death in 1965 at age twenty for an unpremeditated murder during the bungled holdup of a convenience store, Billy Wayne spent his first seven prison years on death row. When the death penalty was abolished, his sentence was life. Three-and-a-half decades later, Billy Wayne is still behind bars-feared by many politicians and prison officials for his well-known incorruptibility and unrelenting crusade for prison reform. This is his memoir.
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"This is his memoir. It begins with an almost unbearable account of his early years, when he was so abused by his father one wonders how he survived, and his "escape" into a crowd of hooligans, which led him to that fateful day in 1965 when he held up the convenience store. His unvarnished story takes you behind the metal doors of the Angola State Penitentiary - and other Louisiana prisons - to reveal the brutal truth of life inside.
Here you will...