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Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the atmospheric poetry of Langston Hughes and set in the heart of Denver's black community, this gripping crime novel pits three characters in a race against time to thwart a gross miscarriage of justice--and a crooked detective who wreaks havoc...with deadly consequences. What happens to a dream deferred--especially when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance? Langston Brown is running out of time and options for clearing his name...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishmentitself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
43) Deadline
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you discovered that 13 people slated for execution had been found innocent? That was exactly the dilemma that Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office. He, alone, was left to decide whether the remaining 167 death row inmates should live or die. This details the gripping drama of the clemency hearings during the countdown to Ryan's decision. Documented as the events unfolded, this is a compelling look inside...
44) Fury: a novel
Author
Series
(Gerald M.)[Frank Corso series] volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Frank Corso has moved to Seattle after "allegedly making up 'facts' on a major crime story" at the New York Times, and now Leanne Samples, victim number nine, asks for him personally when she seeks to derail the execution of "the Trashman," a killer on death row.--Jacket.
45) The chamber
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
Author
Publisher
Kessinger's Legacy Reprints
Pub. Date
2022?
Language
English
Description
Prison life in the state penitentiary at San Quentin, California, as recounted by David Lamson; includes the text of the decision of the California Supreme Court which reversed the order of the trial court which had denied Mr. Lamson a new trial and committed him to the death-house at San Quentin for the murder of his wife.
47) The crying tree
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
When her fifteen-year-old son is killed shortly after their family relocates to Oregon, a grieving mother secretly exchanges letters with the killer in a desperate hope to forgive him and move on, a correspondence that sparks an explosive confrontation.
48) Native son
Author
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities...
49) The loop
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to death-row for 22 harrowing years. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment."...
52) Gallows thief
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Rider Sandman, having fought Napoleon in the French wars, expected to lead the life of an English country gentleman, but now, two years after Waterloo, his family is impoverished, his name is disgraced and he has been forced to relinquish the woman he loves from her obligation to marry him. Desperate to earn money he accepts the job of being the government's Investigator; an official who discovers whether petitions for mercy sent by condemned criminals...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison Guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
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...
56) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When John Coffey, a giant of a man, is brought to death row, prison guard Paul Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about him. Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost like a child himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards' sense of humanity is awakened in this adaptation of the novel by Stephen King.
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Asked by a female serial killer, with only 21 days left to live, to locate her long-lost sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, Frankie Elkin is led to a tech mogul's remote island where she goes undercover to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman's life.
58) Graves gate
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A riveting thriller, Graves Gate straddles the intersection of early psychiatry and the paranormal. At the center of the tale is the prominent author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is offered a seductive opportunity to confirm his unconventional views about the spirit world when he receives a recently-penned letter signed by a long-dead psychiatrist. The letter's offer is irresistiblea chance to commune directly with the deceased. But in exchange...
59) No man of God
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency's criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim's families. As Hagmaier delves into Bundy's dark and twisted mind,...
60) The green mile
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
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