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Collection of prison writings, including unreleased National Public Radio commentaries, by journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Pennsylvania death row inmate who contends he was unjustly convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
Mumia Abu-Jamal and friend Marc Lamont Hill have an informal chat about the state of black culture in the United States. "This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of Africa…
Mumia Abu-Jamal and friend Marc Lamont Hill have an informal chat about the state of Black culture in the United States.
"Joan M. Cheever represented Walter Williams, a killer on Texas' Death Row, for nine years. The two grew up in the same hometown, only a few miles apart, but they came from very different worlds. Cheever tried to stop his execution, but in October 1994 Williams' luck ran out. St…
What would happen if the United States abolished the death penalty and emptied its Death Rows? If killers were released from prison? What would they do with their second chance to live? Would they kill again? [In this book, the author] represented Walter Williams, a killer on Te…
"What would happen if the United States abolished the death penalty and emptied its Death Rows? If killers were released from prison? What would they do with their second chance to live? Would they kill again? Back From The Dead is the story of 589 former death row inmates who, …
This incredible true story unflinchingly shows the injustice of the legal system, as well as the base corruption on display at Angola prison, where Dan spent ten years fighting his wrongful conviction and struggling for a right supposedly guaranteed to all Americans: a fair tria…
At sixteen years old, Dan Bright was the head of a New Orleans drug empire. As his operation grew, it was only a matter of time before he attracted the attention of the criminal justice system, which would stop at nothingincluding framing Dan for murderto get him off the streets…
A riveting eyewitness account of the Davis family's courageous struggle against America's flawed criminal justice system.
I Am Troy Davis, coauthored by Jen Marlowe and Davis's sister Martina Davis-Correia, tells the intimate story of an ordinary man caught up in an inexorable tragedy. From his childhood in racially charged Savannah; to the confused events that led to the 1989 murder of a police of…
A riveting eyewitness account of the Davis family's courageousstruggle against America's flawed criminal justice system.
[The author] chronicles a personal journey through the nation's prison system that culminated in giving the order to execute two death row inmates. [It] brings the reader inside the "secretive, mysterious world of the execution chamber" to witness the process of an execution and…
Death at Midnight is the provocative tale of prison warden Donald Cabana's moral awakening to the evils associated with the death penalty, and of the special relationship forged between a young black prisoner condemned to die and Cabana, the middle-aged white warden condemned to…