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Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor

By "Persian Cowboy"

Arcade Publishing has published a book titled Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor by Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair, with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, who calls the book ?a searing condemnation and a powerful guide to the futility and arrogance of the death penalty carried out in the name of justice.?In its landmark 1972 Furman v. Georgia ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as ?capricious and arbitrary,? automatically commuting all death sentences to life in prison, but leaving the door open for states to reestablish the procedure. Many states?led by Texas, Georgia, and Florida?took the decision as a challenge and by 1976 reinstated it. Today some 3,300 men and women await their fate on death row...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).