Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice (SIGNED)

Ingle, Joseph B. (Burton); William Styron

ISBN 10: 0687211247 / ISBN 13: 9780687211241

Published by Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1990

About this Item

SIGNED and inscribed on front endpaper by Joseph B. Ingle. This book comes with a letter written on Ingle's stationary and signed with the author's initials. Foreword by William Styron. Tight, clean and crisp. An excellent copy protected in a new Mylar cover. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 8vo; 300 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 12221

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tennessee
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0687211247
• ISBN 13: 9780687211241
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Reverend Joseph Ingle€™s moving book argues eloquently and passionately against the death penalty, serving as an enduring testament to the inmates who have touched his life. Ingle, a counselor to prisoners on Death Row since 1974, chronicles his experiences working with 12 condemned men and one condemned woman each of whom has since been executed.  For more than three decades, he has spread his anti-death penalty message across the country, doggedly referring to what the state calls “execution€¯ as “killing.€¯ A man of simple faith, Ingle refuses to see these inmates as anything less than human beings. With a chapter devoted to each of the inmates, Ingle memorializes them without attempting to cleanse the record of their crimes.  Instead, he emphasizes the necessity of viewing them as individuals: “The public needs to see them for who they were and how their love enriched m