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No choirboy : murder, violence, and teenagers on death row / Susan Kuklin.

Kuklin, Susan, (author.).

Summary:

In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780805079500
  • ISBN: 0805079505
  • Physical Description: 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I was a teenager on death row chapter -- The fourteen-year-old adult -- Look at me -- Hate is a killer, dialogue I -- Private with our grief, dialogue II -- Dying for legal assistance : Roy's and Mark's lawyer.
Target Audience Note:
690L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 7 124045.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject:
Capital punishment > United States.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Death row inmates > United States > Interviews.
Juvenile delinquents > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Genre:
Interviews.
Young adult literature.

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  • 11 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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