An edition of Dead Run (1999)

Dead run

the untold story of Dennis Stockton and America's only mass escape from death row

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An edition of Dead Run (1999)

Dead run

the untold story of Dennis Stockton and America's only mass escape from death row

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

"Summers are always stifling in southern Virginia, and they're even hotter on the Mecklenburg Correctional Center's Death Row when Dennis Stockton arrives there in July 1983. Charged with murder for hire, Stockton insisted he was innocent, but his jury sentenced him to die. In prison, he begins keeping a diary and it soon becomes his lifeline, nurturing dreams of freedom and publication as an author."--BOOK JACKET.

"Mecklenburg's officials had always prided themselves on running a secure prison, but that left them vulnerable to an ingenious escape conspiracy. Though indispensable in the plotting, Stockton decides not to run, betting instead on a new trial and exoneration. The escape of the "Mecklenburg Six" is dazzlingly suspenseful, as they take hostages, don guards' uniforms, and, staging a monumental bluff, make history with America's first mass escape from Death Row.

Meanwhile, Stockton notes it all in his journal."--BOOK JACKET.

"After the escape, a Norfolk newspaper editor, William F. Burke, Jr., writes to the remaining inmates, seeking information on the unprecedented breakout. Stockton's diary becomes the most revealing account, and when excerpts are published, a scandalous portrait of Death Row emerges: bribed guards, marijuana plants, homebrew alcohol, weapon stashes, unlocked cell doors, and jailhouse sex. Overnight, Stockton becomes the most hated man in Virginia's prisons for his expose.

During the next eleven years, he survives plots against his life and endures subhuman conditions. Throughout his ordeal he struggles to find his voice as a writer, while battling to gain a new trial and escape the "monster factory," his name for Death Row. As Stockton's scheduled execution nears, the case against him begins unraveling, leaving readers to ponder the true nature of justice."--BOOK JACKET.

"Burke and Joe Jackson, a reporter colleague, investigate Stockton's persistent claims of innocence and discover that everything he has asserted checks out, from his version of the closing hours of a lonely country diner to his allegations of a secret prosecution deal with the witness whose testimony convicted him. They uncover a sinister underworld in Stockton's small town and fill in the frame that was hung around his neck."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Times Books
Language
English
Pages
299

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Dead Run: The Untold Story of Dennis Stockton and America's Only Mass Escape from Death Row
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1999, Times Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293).

Published in
New York
Genre
Case studies., Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.66/092, B
Library of Congress
HV8658.S76 J33 1999, HV 8658 S76 J33 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 299 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
299

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL20698918M
ISBN 10
0812932064
LCCN
99020687
OCLC/WorldCat
40979854
LibraryThing
245748
Goodreads
734124

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2847852W

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