Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead : The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson (Hardcover)

from Veronica.Sparrow

Until You are Dead, Dead, Dead: The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson" by Jim Bradshaw is an absorbing and ultimately very sad account of a man who was tried and put to death for the mass murder a family that he may or may not be guilty of. It is a little bit of a dry read but then it is a historica...

from Darcia

This is both a fascinating and disturbing look at a mass murder that took place in 1902, and a man who was, in all likelihood, put to death for a crime he did not commit. This is probably the oldest case I've read about in which the media almost single-handedly ensured the outcome of the trial. I...

from ElizaJane

This is a true story of the case of Albert Edwin Batson who was hanged for killing a family of six in the early 1900s Louisiana. The book is from an academic press and as such does not read like a story as many of the true crime books I usually read. I found the book a bit hard to read at first, ...