Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth by Richard A. Serrano
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Overview: A lost history of racial discrimination in America’s capital punishment system revealed by seventeen lives lived in the Fort Leavenworth military prison
Between 1955 and 1961, seventeen condemned soldiers—eight white, nine black—lived together on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison. All eight of the white soldiers were eventually paroled and returned to their families, spared by high-ranking army officers, the military courts, the White House staff or President Eisenhower himself, sympathetic doctors, and attorneys highly trained in capital litigation. One white master sergeant was serving time for drowning the eight-year-old daughter of an army colonel in Japan. But when the girl’s parents forgave him, it sparked a national effort that opened the prison doors and set him free.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biography & Memoirs
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