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Slaughter on a Snowy Morn: A Tale of Murder, Corruption and the Death Penalty Case That Shocked America - Couverture souple

Evans, Colin

 
9781848312166: Slaughter on a Snowy Morn: A Tale of Murder, Corruption and the Death Penalty Case That Shocked America
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ISBN 10 : 1848312164 ISBN 13 : 9781848312166
Editeur : Icon Books, 2011

Synopsis

Sing Sing Prison, New York, July 1916. Charles Frederick Stielow, a 37-year-old farmhand with the mind of an infant, is just minutes away from the electric chair for a double murder he didn't commit. With a vengeful legal system baying for blood, his situation looks hopeless. Eight blocks away, Stielow's wife sobs helplessly in her hotel room, certain she will never see her husband alive again.

Slaughter on a Snowy Morn is the first full account of how Charles Stielow, convicted of murdering a wealthy landowner and his housekeeper, became the central figure in one of the most fascinating yet little-known stories in criminal history. The cast list includes New York state Governor Charles Seymour Whitman - ambitious for the White House - and his nemesis, Sing Sing warden Thomas Mott Osborne, a passionate opponent of the death penalty, convinced of Stielow's innocence.

The crooked 'expert' testimony of Albert H. Hamilton, a jumped-up druggist, condemned Stielow to death row, where the battle to save his life is led by America's most celebrated female lawyer, Grace Humiston. But the story's unsung hero is the obsessively secretive, quietly spoken Charles E. Waite - the great mystery man of American forensic science - whose experts tore Hamilton's testimony to shreds.

Colin Evans presents a nail-biting true story of wrongful conviction and redemption in an age of bare-knuckle politics and cynical courtroom manoeuvring, which changed for ever the face of American justice.

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À propos de l'auteur

Colin Evans is the author of several books specialising in forensics. These include The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes, and Father of Forensics (Icon, 2008)

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Éditeur
Icon Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1848312164
ISBN 13 
9781848312166
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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