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Book

The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row

Call Number

  • 921 H6662 (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]

Physical Description

xii, 255 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Print run 200,000.

Notes

"Oprah's book club : 2018 selection"--Dust jacket.

Contents

  • Capital offense
  • All American
  • A two-year test drive
  • The cooler killer
  • Premeditated guilt
  • The whole truth
  • Conviction, conviction, conviction
  • Keep your mouth shut
  • On appeal
  • The death squad
  • Waiting to die
  • The Queen of England
  • No monsters
  • Love is a foreign language
  • Go tell it on the mountain
  • Shakedown
  • God's best lawyer
  • Testing the bullets
  • Empty chairs
  • Dissent
  • They kill you on Thursdays
  • Justice for all
  • The sun does shine
  • Bang on the bars
  • Afterword : pray for them by name.

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