Conversations with the Capeman by Richard Jacoby

Conversations with the Capeman by Richard Jacoby

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.
In 1973 Richard Jacoby began a voluminous, twelve-year correspondence with Agron. His Conversations with the Capeman is guaranteed to challenge deeply held notions of crime, punishment, and redemption. Salvador Agron was released from prison in 1979 and died in the Bronx in 1986 at the age of forty-two.

With a new preface

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.

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ISBN 13	9781891305504
ISBN 10	1891305506
Titel	Conversations with the Capeman
Autor	Richard Jacoby
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Painted Leaf Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-11-01
Seitenanzahl	514
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