The Executioner's Song

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years.But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.

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This is by far the best thing Mailer ever wrote New Statesman, *Books of the Year*

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Norman Mailer
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.07.1989
• EAN: 9780099688600
• ISBN: 978-0-09-968860-0
• Pagine: 1088
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 46 mm
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi; Narrativa > Gialli; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Penology and punishment, Prisons