Thy Will Be Done: The Plight of a Young Man Sentenced to Die in North America's Electric Chair. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Thy Will Be Done: The Plight of a Young Man Sentenced to Die in North America's Electric Chair

Prisoner number SOO23 closed his eyes and prayed. He opened them to absorb a scene more grotesque than his mind had hitherto been able to conjure. In a life and death struggle, Nathan Nelson endured twelve long years on Death Row and the agony and the ecstasy of life's fateful twists and turns that followed. What thoughts play havoc in a young man's mind, knowing that a painfully agonizing death is imminent? Follow Nathan on this amazing journey through a world hidden from public view and recognized only by those known as society's condemned.

K.C. Kennedy is a former high school English teacher, who studied the United States criminal justice system for several years and the particular case of a young African-American male sentenced to die in 1961. Interviews ranged from those of a former Pennsylvania Commissioner of Prisons, a journalist who witnessed the execution of a convict in Pennsylvania's electric chair,lawyers and federal judges to family members, inmates, and even a U.S. marine drill sergeant. Penetrating, captivating, and spiritually motivating are how Kennedy describes her year long research in various locations in the United States. Her quest was born of a desire to accurately portray the sights, sounds, and the characters' innermost thoughts and feelings in Thy Will Be Done.