One Hundred Letters From Death Row
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One Hundred Letters From Death Row
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Author : Marit Lund Bødtker
language : no
Publisher: Yuniku forlag
Release Date : 2023-06-07
One Hundred Letters From Death Row written by Marit Lund Bødtker and has been published by Yuniku forlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the story of Ivan Ray Murphy Jr who, at the age of 28, was condemned to death for the murder of a defenceless old woman. In his youth Murphy had regularly mowed the lawn of the victim, his grandmother’s friend and neighbour. Over a period of ten years and through the medium of more than a hundred letters, Murphy, who was known as PeeWee, shared his innermost thoughts with his twenty years older Norwegian pen friend, the author of this book, Marit Lund Bødtker, and in so doing afforded her an insight into a hitherto completely unknown world. The author twice travelled to the prison in Huntsville, Texas, where Murphy was held and from where he worked tirelessly to regain his freedom. In the course of their long friendship, at the condemned man’s urging Marit Lund Bødtker agreed to write a book about his life. This is that book. ‘Whether he is innocent, as he claims to be, or guilty, Murphy is first and foremost a human being, a man with his own personal strengths and weaknesses, dreams and aspirations. In all probability readers will sometimes find themselves agreeing with him, at other times totally at variance with his conduct and opinions, just as they do with other people they meet or read about.’ John Peder Egenæs, Secretary General, Amnesty International Norway Marit Lund Bødtker (b. 1941), a librarian and journalist by profession, is the author of a wide range of books, both fiction and non-fiction, for children and adults. This is her eighth book. Basil Cowlishaw has been resident in Norway since 1949 and has translated numerous articles, tourist brochures, scientific treatises, plays and books, among them Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and the official account of the XVII Olympic Winter Games. The writer is using a pen name M.L. Cooper for Singapore Sling. She is an established Norwegian writer, a former journalist and librarian as well. Altogether this writer has published ten books in different genres. She was born in 1941. Marit Lund Bødtker is an established Norwegian writer and journalist who has published a long number of books in different genres.
Welcome To Hell
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Author : Jan Arriens
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2005
Welcome To Hell written by Jan Arriens and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Law categories.
Now in a new edition, condemned men and women speak for themselves about the reality behind bars on death row.
Condemned
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Author : Seán Ó Riain
language : en
Publisher: Liberties Press
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Condemned written by Seán Ó Riain and has been published by Liberties Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Law categories.
Condemned:Letters from Death Rowby "Ray" and Seán Ó Riain is a collection of letters between a former Cork teacher and a death row inmate that develops into a unique friendship-one thatis in itself a subtle, rallying cry against an American system that still honours the 3,000 year old adage "an eye for eye", serving as a reminder that, as Gandhi observed, "An eye for an eye makes everyone blind".Ray has been convicted of killing a man, a crime he committed as a young man and that he admits and regrets. For his crime, Ray's sentence is death but what he seeks is not a pardon, or pity, or freedom. Simply, he hopes that his sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment without parole. For most of us to hope for a future so bleak seems unimaginable, but for Ray this is the focus of his appeals- a chance to live. Seán Ó Riain has been writing to Ray for several years and, while Seán's careful letters are included, it is Ray's heartfelt depiction of death row life that form the heart and soul of the book. Ray's letters are powerful in their understated descriptions of his difficult life circumstances- from juvenile offender with addict parents and dependent siblings to his current situation. The denied dreams, the unfulfilled desires, the loneliness, and the fear are all brought to devastating reality in his simple words. The men's letters are framed by commentaries, facts, and case-studies from the American death penalty system, clarifying the process of state sanctioned revenge in 36 of the US states: a process directly in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A process currently viewed by 88% of American Criminologists and by most American police chiefs as the least effective deterrent to violent crime- one that costs $114 million more annually than life imprisonment in one state alone. Since the year 2000, almost 700 people have been executed in the 36 states that still enforcethe death penalty in the US. InCondemned, after several years of writing to Ray, Ó Riain makes us question the prevalence of the death sentence in the American legal system and asks- should any state punishthe death of a citizen with more death?
Crimson Letters Voices From Death Row
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Author : Tessie Castillo
language : en
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Release Date : 2020-03-12
Crimson Letters Voices From Death Row written by Tessie Castillo and has been published by Black Rose Writing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Through thirty compelling essays written in the prisoners’ own words, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row offers stories of brutal beatings inside juvenile hall, botched suicide attempts, the terror of the first night on Death Row, the pain of goodbye as a friend is led to execution, and the small acts of humanity that keep hope alive for men living in the shadow of death. Each carefully crafted personal essay illuminates the complex stew of choice and circumstance that brought four men to Death Row and the cycle of dehumanization and brutality that continues inside prison. At times the men write with humor, at times with despair, at times with deep sensitivity, but always with keen insight and understanding of the common human experience that binds us.
Death Row Letters
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Author : Charles M. Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2008
Death Row Letters written by Charles M. Leslie and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A prisoner on death row in Indiana, Donald Ray Wallace, Jr undergoes a spiritual journey from crime to redemption. But Wallace is slated for death. Whether Wallace had an unidentified accomplice in the murders that condemned him remains an unsolved question. In any case, four people died as a result of the robbery Wallace was attempting to commit.
Death Row Letters
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Author : Charles Leslie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-11
Death Row Letters written by Charles Leslie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the year 2000 the author, a professor of anthropology, struck up an acquaintance with a prisoner on death row in Indiana. The inmate, Donald Ray Wallace, Jr., bears a vital resemblance to Dostoyevsky's fictional protagonist in Crime and Punishment. Like Rashkolnikov, Wallace undergoes a spiritual journey from crime to redemption. But Wallace, unlike Rashkolnikov, is slated for death. Whether Wallace had an unidentified accomplice in the murders that condemned him remains an unsolved question. In any case, four people died as the result of the robbery Wallace was attempting to commit. These letters provide access to the reflections of a brilliant mind grappling with existence on death row, dramatizing the spiritual and social void created in our prisons. They demonstrate the way that our justice system may incarcerate a confused twenty-year-old and, some twenty years later, execute a very different man.
Welcome To Hell
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Author : Jan Arriens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Welcome To Hell written by Jan Arriens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Afro-American prisoners categories.
Letters From Death Row
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Author : Erin Taylor Daniels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Letters From Death Row written by Erin Taylor Daniels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The sound of the judge's gavel and his pronouncement of the sentence echoed in his mind, "Death by electrocution." How had he arrived at this place in his life? Do you believe that people who commit heinous crimes are beyond redemption? Have you ever wondered what life on death row is like? If so, take a journey with Erin Daniels into the heart of death row and experience the real-life story of Larry Lonchar through actual letters they exchanged during the last three and a half years of his life. Get glimpses into life on death row and, most importantly, the real mental and spiritual challenges Larry faced as he searched for peace in the midst of his chaos. Was he able to overcome the obstacles to find true peace before he died, or did he settle for the false peace he thought only death could give him? At the end of each chapter, Erin challenges you to think about and apply real-life concepts discussed within their letters. Letters from Death Row is a thought-provoking read that can be used for individual and/or group study.
From Your Friend Carey Dean
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Author : Lisa Knopp
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-05-10
From Your Friend Carey Dean written by Lisa Knopp and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Lisa Knopp visited Nebraska’s death row with other death penalty abolitionists in 1995, she couldn’t have imagined that one of the inmates she met that day would become a dear friend. For the next twenty-three years, through visits, phone calls, and letters, a remarkable, platonic friendship flourished between Knopp, an English professor, and Carey Dean Moore, who’d murdered two Omaha cab drivers in 1979 and for which he was executed by lethal injection in 2018. From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row, tells two other stories, as well. One is that of a broken correctional system (Nebraska’s prisons are overcrowded, understaffed, and underfunded, and excessive in their use of solitary confinement), and what it’s like to be incarcerated there, which Moore frequently spoke and wrote about. The other is the story of how a double murderer was transformed and nourished by his faith in God’s promises. Though Moore and Knopp were different types of Christians (he was a Biblical literalist and an evangelical; she is a Biblical contextualist with progressive leanings), they shared faith in God’s love, grace, mercy, and abiding companionship.
Writing For Their Lives
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Author : Marie Mulvey Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2007
Writing For Their Lives written by Marie Mulvey Roberts and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Law categories.
A powerful anthology documenting the thoughts and experiences of those waiting to die