A Life In The Balance

Billy Wayne Sinclair, Jodie Sinclair

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Altri dati

Formato:
Paperback
Editore:
Skyhorse Publishing
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
360
Dimensioni:
228 X 152
Codice EAN:
9781611451023
Generi:
Literature & Fiction, True Stories
Altre informazioni:
16 b&w photographs
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 16,95

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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. A Life in the Balance 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 the fateful day in 1965 when he held up the convenience store. His story takes you behind the metal doors of the Angola State Penitentiary to reveal the brutal truth of life inside. Here you will meet Billy Ray, Billy Wayne's blood brother; old Emmitt Henderson, who died of prison neglect; Jamie Parks, a seventeen-year-old kid whose fate was sealed the day he arrived in Angola; Big Mick, who ran drugs in the prison to earn money to put his handicapped sister through college; Wilbert Rideau, Billy Wayne's coeditor on The Angolite; the Dixie Mafia; and, Richard Clark Hand, the young lawyer who took on Billy Wayne's case and has been fighting for his release for thirty years.

L'Autore

Billy Wayne Sinclair established himself in prison as a jailhouse lawyer, defending the rights of fellow prisoners, and as a journalist. Released from prison in 2006, he is a senior paralegal at the John T. Floyd Law Firm. He lives with his wife, Jodie, in Houston, Texas. Jodie Sinclair, Billy Wayne Sinclair's wife and coauthor, received her Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University. She resides in Houston, Texas.