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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without a trace. Or to be told that the condemned to the guillotine won't have a last drink for fear of "completely losing his head." The business of death can be absurd,...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney, has spent years rebelling against his overpowering father, Harry, now Florida's governor. When, on the eve of an execution, the governor denies Jack's request for a stay and allows the death sentence against Jack's client to be carried out, all hopes for a reconciliation seem dashed."--BOOK JACKET. "But events will soon place father and son in extreme jeopardy. Jack will be tried for a murder he didn't...
6) Clemency
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A prison warden sees a series of executions put a strain on her marriage, career, and convictions.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. Because there's no way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. There's no way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...dead"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the realm of the Dark-Hunters there is a code of honor that even immortal bad boys must follow: Harm no human. Drink no blood. Never fall in love. But every now and again a Dark-Hunter thinks himself above the Code. That's when I'm summoned. Who am I? I'm the one thing the fearless fear. Step over the line, and it's my wrath you will face. Nothing can touch me. Nothing can sway me. I am relentless and unfeeling. Or so I thought until I met a Dark-Hunter...
9) Edgedancer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 2.5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting...
Author
Publisher
Carrel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Pog mo thin ("Kiss my ass" in Gaelic) he grinned electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off his body slumped against the leather restraints, and Gleeson, who had strangled two fellow inmates to ensure his execution was not postponed, was dead. The execution had gone flawlessly-not a guaranteed...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the heinous murder of her sister, an adult Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the original suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.
18) #Murdertrending
Author
Series
MurderTrending volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Charles Todd has earned a special place among mystery’s elite writers with his acclaimed series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a former soldier seeking to lay to rest the demons of his past in the aftermath of World War I. But that past bleeds into the present in a complex murder case that calls into question his own honor...and the crimes committed in the name of God, country, and righteous vengeance. A Fearsome...
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