Conversations with the Capeman : The Untold Story of Salvador Agron Paperback
by Richard Jacoby
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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.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780299197445
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Unavailable
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780299197445