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Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death- Scott Christianson, 0814715966, hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death- Scott Christianson, 081471
- Artist
- Christianson, Scott
- ISBN
- 9780814715963
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Name
- Condemned : inside the Sing Sing Death House
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- Penology, Criminology
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 10 in
- Item Weight
- 20.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814715966
ISBN-13
9780814715963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
835670
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Condemned : inside the Sing Sing Death House
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Penology, Criminology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
10 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-006819
Reviews
"This is a rare bookhaunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent." - William Kennedy, author of Ironweed, This is a rare bookhaunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent., A haunting experience. Combining the clinical virtuosity of an exhumation with the fascination of an archeological dig, it delivers a powerful intellectual message about the death penalty. Among the most vicious features of capital punishment are the veils of secrecy and forgetting with which we shroud the rituals of execution. Condemned tears away those veils and makes us take a hard, cold look at the human realities they try to hide., "This is a rare book-haunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent." - William Kennedy, author ofIronweed, Simply by presenting excerpts from the state's own internal files, this book offers some of the most compelling evidence against the death penalty., "Simply by presenting excerpts from the state's own internal files, this book offers some of the most compelling evidence against the death penalty." - Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York, This is a rare book-haunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent., "This is a rare book-haunting fragments from the lives of men and women on their way to the electric chair. A moving and troubling epitaph for the guilty and perhaps the innocent." -William Kennedy,author of Ironweed, "A haunting experience. Combining the clinical virtuosity of an exhumation with the fascination of an archeological dig, it delivers a powerful intellectual message about the death penalty. Among the most vicious features of capital punishment are the veils of secrecy and forgetting with which we shroud the rituals of execution. Condemned tears away those veils and makes us take a hard, cold look at the human realities they try to hide." -Anthony G. Amsterdam,Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, "A haunting experience. Combining the clinical virtuosity of an exhumation with the fascination of an archeological dig, it delivers a powerful intellectual message about the death penalty. Among the most vicious features of capital punishment are the veils of secrecy and forgetting with which we shroud the rituals of execution. Condemned tears away those veils and makes us take a hard, cold look at the human realities they try to hide." - Anthony G. Amsterdam, Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, "Simply by presenting excerpts from the state's own internal files, this book offers some of the most compelling evidence against the death penalty." -Mario Cuomo,former Governor of New York
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
365/.6
Synopsis
In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing. In the 70 odd years before 1963, when the death sentence was declared unconstitutional in New York, Sing Sing was the site of almost one-half of the 1,353 executions carried out in the state. More people were executed at Sing Sing than at any other American prison, yet Sing Sing's death house was, to a remarkable extent, one of the most closed, secret and mythologized places in modern America. In this remarkable book, based on recently revealed archival materials, Scott Christianson takes us on a disturbing and poignant tour of Sing Sing's legendary death house, and introduces us to those whose lives Sing Sing claimed. Within the dusty files were mug shots of each newly arrived prisoner, most still wearing the out-to-court clothes they had on earlier that day when they learned their verdict and were sentenced to death. It is these sometimes bewildered, sometimes defiant, faces that fill the pages of Condemned , along with the documents of their last months at Sing Sing. The reader follows prisoners from their introduction to the rules of Sing Sing, through their contact with guards and psychiatrists, their pleas for clemency, escape attempts, resistance, and their final letters and messages before being put to death. We meet the mother of five accused of killing her husband, the two young Chinese men accused of a murder during a robbery and the drifter who doesn't remember killing at all. While the majority of inmates are everyday people, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were also executed here, as were the major figures in the infamous Murder Inc., forerunner of the American mafia. Page upon page, Condemned leaves an indelible impression of humanity and suffering.
LC Classification Number
HV8699.U5C4 2000
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