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344 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691016610
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 03 December 2000
Description
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed J...
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344 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691016610
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 03 December 2000
Description
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed J...