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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times ..." The year is 1789. In London, Lucie Darnay lives quietly with her father, who is a former prisoner, and her husband and child. In Paris, the bloody French Revolution is about to begin. How will the uprisings in faraway France affect Lucie and those she loves? What dreadful secrets from the distant past threaten their security, even their lives? When "the best of times" becomes "the worst of...
10) Clemency
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bernadine is a stoic prison warden, but two back-to-back executions put a strain on her marriage, career and convictions.
11) The cat dancers
Author
Series
Cam Richter novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Managing the wrath of victim families when the murderers responsible for several deaths are released on a technicality, Lieutenant Cam Richter faces the difficult task of stopping a vigilante after the first of the released murderers is killed.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair. But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other. Together they...
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 3
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing monk, and an...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures-traveling from King William's Britain to...
17) Call it murder
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a sensational trial, Ethel Saxon is sentenced to death for the murder of her lover. The conviction is partly credited to jury foreman Edward Weldon and a direct question he put to the defendant. Weldon's strict belief in the rule of law is challenged though as Saxon's midnight execution draws near and the strange events of that dark night play out.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Placing a seminal moment in American history in the larger context of the Civil War, this account revisits the little-known Dakota War of 1862, an uprising on the Minnesota frontier which resulted in the forced relocation of the Dakota and the hanging ofthirty-eight Dakota warriors.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are Cold War iconic symbols and their trial and execution embody the hysteria fueled by the McCarthy's red scare. But who were the Rosenberg's as people? Listen to staunch Rosenberg comrades and hear the intimate interviews with the filmmaker's father, Michael Meeropol, who brings an immediacy to his parents' story. This painful revelation eerily underscores the depth of political paranoia of the time and the impossibility...
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