Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor

“A searing condemnation and a powerful guide to the futility and arrogance of the death penalty carried out in the name of justice.”

—Sister Helen Prejean

Billy Wayne Sinclair was only 21 when he heard the Louisiana judge pronounce these words: "I hereby sentence you to death in the electric chair."

It was the culmination of a botched holdup committed the year before in which Billy had accidentally shot and killed a man. Billy spent the next 40 years in Angola Prison - one of the country's wor...