Wrongly Executed? - the Long-Forgotten Context of Charles Sberna's 1939 Electrocution

by Thomas Hunt

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Was Charles Sberna wrongly convicted of the murder of Police Officer John H.A. Wilson? Was an innocent man sent to the electric chair in 1939? What reasons could the authorities have had for refusing to consider alternatives and rushing Sberna into Sing Sing Prison's death device? 'Wrongly Executed?' provides the details and historical background of the Sberna case. The story is a complex and controversial one, involving celebrity attorneys, Mafia bosses, violent political radicals, media giants and ruthless establishment figures, all set in a period in which Americans sought stability and government-imposed order after years of political upheaval, economic depression and Prohibition Era lawlessness.
  • ISBN10 1365527964
  • ISBN13 9781365527968
  • Publish Date 19 January 2017 (first published 11 November 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 260
  • Language English