Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House by Christianson, Scott New<-

CondemnedInside the Sing Sing Death House\nAuthor(s): Scott Christianson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814716168, 978-0814716168\nSynopsis\nAn inside look into one of the most mythologized prisons in modern America--the Sing Sing death house\n In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing. In the 70 odd years before 1963, when the death sentence was declared unconstitutional in New York, Sing Sing was the site of almost one-half of the 1,353 executions carried out in the state. More people were executed at Sing Sing than at any other American prison, yet Sing Sing's death house was, to a remarkable extent, one of the most closed, secret and mythologized places in modern America.\nIn this remarkable book, based on recently revealed archival materials, Scott Christianson takes us on a disturbing a.