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(0)Gilbert King
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A small town. A big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a 'husky Negro' did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of how a young Cajun lawyer, Bertrand DeBlanc, fought to save 17-year-old Willie Francis from the electric chair. In deciding Willie's fate the courts and the country would be forced to ask questions about capital punishment that remain unresolved today.--From amazon.com.