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Chargement... Folsom's 93: The Lives and Crimes of Folsom Prison's Executed Menpar April Moore
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From 1895 to 1937, 93 men were hanged at California's Folsom State Prison, and this book is the first to tell all of their stories, recounting long-forgotten tales of murder and swift justice, or sometimes, swift injustice that hanged an innocent man. Based on a treasury of historical information that has been hidden from the public for nearly 70 years, the full stories of these 93 executed men are presented in this collection including their origins, their crimes, the investigations that brought them to justice, their trials, and their deaths at the gallows. This wealth of previously unpublished historical detail gives a vivid view of the sociology of early 20th-century crime and of the resulting prison life. Readers take a trip back in time to the hard-boiled early 20th-century California that inspired the novels of Dashiell Hammett and countless other crime writers. Illustrated throughout with authentic and haunting prison photographs of each of the condemned men, the crimes and punishments of a vanished era are brought into a sharp and realistic light. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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When you watch the news these days and see what a guilty man gets sentenced, it's a social injustice. 'Life' does not mean life in prison, death sentences get commuted, and prisoners have 'rights'. No so, back in time when that cell door clanged till you were hanged.
I can EASILY see see this book by April Moore becoming a tv show on the Investigation Discovery channel......i'd be one who'd watch!
ps- i honestly had NO idea that death by hanging took SO long! Too many westerns where death is instantaneous.....ohhhhhh no. ( )