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Twenty Thousand (20,000) Years in Sing Sing by Lawes, Warden Lewis E
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Book description: NY: New Home Library, 1942 VERY GOOD+ reprint HC, no DJ. A really nice copy with nearly perfect crimson cloth boards, decorated in gray and black. Red fore-edges. Crisp, clean, tight, no markings. A couple of minor spots on prelim pages only. 5.75" x 8.25", 412 pages. Warden Lawes' fascinating expose on his experiences at the infamous Sing Sing Prison, and his thoughts on capital punishment. This book was the basis for the 1940 film 'Castle on the Hudson', starring John Garfield. From the prologue: "I have been directed to kill lawfully 150 men and 1 woman. It is my legal duty to be present physically in the death chamber. But actually I have never seen an execution.". Hard Cover.
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