The Mercy Seat
As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit. In a tale taut with tension, events unfold hour by hour from the perspectives of nine people involved. They include Willie himself, who knows what really happened, and his father, desperately trying to reach the town jail to see his son one last time; the prosecuting lawyer, haunted by being forced to seek the death penalty against his convictions, and his wife, who believes Willie to…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4736-7248-2
- EAN: 9781473672482
- Produktnummer: 25062114
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 570 KB
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Elizabeth H. Winthrop
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