A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story

Billy Wayne Sinclair; Jodie Sinclair

ISBN 10: 1559705558 / ISBN 13: 9781559705554

Published by Arcade Publishing, 2001

About this Item

A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story by Billy Wayne andJodie Sinclair. Signed by Jodie Sinclair on the full title page. Signature only. First edition, first printing published in 2001 by Arcade Publishing. Jacket is clipped and 269 to 305 have a significant gouge that does not effect the text block.

Seller Inventory # 000559

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559705558
• ISBN 13: 9781559705554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In 1965, at the age of twenty, Billy Wayne Sinclair unintentionally killed a man in a bungled convenience store hold-up. Quicky tried and convicted, he was sentenced to death and spent the next seven years on death row. In 1972, his sentence was commuted to life. Sinclair has spent his time in prison trying to improve the heinous conditions. At great personal risk, he was instrumental in integrating The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Working undercover for the FBI inside the prison, he exposed a pardon-for-sale scheme at Angola that involved highly placed state and prison officials. Prisoners who bought pardons were released. Sinclair is still behind bars.

About the Author

Billy Wayne Sinclair has been in prison for thirty-five years. Though judged an exemplary prisoner, all his petitions for parole have been turned down.