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Title: Condemned by Scott Christianson ISBN: 0-8147-1616-4 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A picture book
Comment: This is not for someone who is interested in actual people's stories. It's just a picture book -- it opens the door to Sing Sing but doesn't invite us in. Disappointing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pictures that are worth many thousand words . . .
Comment: Regardless of the reader's position on the death penalty, this book is a fascinating, disturbing, thought-provoking, and very necessary addition to the personal library of anyone interested in that issue. The book contains an incredible array of photos, documents, and information quoted directly from long-buried records. Until recently, these materials were never viewed by anyone outside the "power elite" of the corrections system.
The author makes the book truly unique by using only a bare minimum of narration and commentary. Instead, he allows these haunting images to speak for themselves. By doing so, he allows the reader to form his or her own impressions, opinions and conclusions. This makes the book's impact all the more powerful.
An especially troubling message of this book is that our criminal justice system has traditionally kept a tight lid on public knowledge of many aspects of the life and death of its condemned men and women, and that this remains so today in all but the very few most highly-publicized cases (such as Timothy McVeigh or Karla Faye Tucker).
Rating: 5
Summary: Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House
Comment: The author has presented documents, letters, photographs, and memos between prison personnel in a clever, yet straight-forward manner that allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. The photographs were fascinating and speak volumes of the lives of these death row inmates. I was most struck by three consecutive mug shots of Frederick Wood, which illustrated the aging effect that the prison had on him over 18 years. As an investigator, I was impressed that the author was able to obtain these telling documents from Sing-Sing. The book conjures up many emotions regarding the lives and deaths of these people. The fact that some of the subjects look like they belong in most family photo albums really brings it home. The book would make a riviting museum exhibit. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover ISBN: 0375726624 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases by Scott Christianson ISBN: 0814716342 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime by David Dow, Mark Dow, Christopher Hitchens ISBN: 041593267X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward ISBN: 074325547X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke ISBN: 0743260244 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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