In the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, 1959, a playground confrontation leaves two white youths bludgeoned to death by a gang of Puerto Rican kids. Sixteen-year-old Salvador Agron, who wore a red-lined satin cape, was charged with the murders, though no traces of blood were found on his dagger. At seventeen, Agron was the youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the electric chair. After nearly two years in the Death House at Sing Sing Prison, a group of prominent citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the governor of Puerto Rico, convinced Governor Rockefeller to commute Agron's sentence to one of life imprisonment.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: University of Wisconsin Press
EAN: 9780299197445
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 528
WEIGHT: 710 g
HEIGHT: 230 mm
PUBLISHED BY: University of Wisconsin Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-31
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GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TRUE CRIME / General
WIDTH: 152 mm
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Book Themes:
True crime, Crime and criminology
Richard Jacoby, who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, now lives in Santa Monica, California, where he has worked for over twenty years as a special education teacher for profoundly disabled children.