death row inmates

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary John Coffey awaits death for raping and murdering two young girls.

"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones he loves. But the population on the outside may be far more terrifying than anything he could have imaged. And in order to save his family, he'll have to discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world"--Dust jacket.

"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones he loves. But the population on the outside may be far more terrifying than anything he could have imaged. And in order to save his family, he'll have to discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world"--Dust jacket.

In their own voices, raw and uncensored, inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there.

Not an unabridged version - dramatization!.

Anthony Ray Hinton shares how he was wrongfully convicted of two counts of capital murder, sentenced to death by electrocution, and able to prove his innocence and reflects on the twenty-seven years he spent on death row.

Written by Anthony Graves who was wrongfully convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, the text presents the story of his confinement and struggle for exoneration.

A young, mentally-handicapped, African-American man in 1940s Louisiana, awaiting a death sentence after being wrongfully convicted of murder, receives jail cell visits from the local teacher, who attempts to impart some wisdom and pride to the condemned man before his death.

"... reconstruction of the ... life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South"--Provided by publisher.

The Center for Death Penalty Litigation takes on the cases of wrongly condemned prisoners. This is the story of some of those cases and the book also profiles how the center works.