The Law Of Second Chances by James Sheehan

"The death penalty is an intricate part of politics in America.  So many people on Florida's death row had been found innocent than in any other state in America.  In The Mayor of Lexington Avenue, I tried to put a face on the injustice of the system.  In The Law of Second Chances, I continued with the same theme and further expanded the subject by...asking some important questions:

1) Should we care why people become criminals?  

2) Or should we simply concern ourselves with punishment?  

3) And if we never look deep enough at the socioeconomic causes and try to eliminate or modify them, are we going to run out of space for all the prisons we are going to need to build in the years to come as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer?  

I hope that the stories will cause the reader to think a little more about the criminal, the crime, the legal system and the society we live in." (by James Sheehan, Florida, 2008)

Paperback:  Henry Wilson has been on death row for seventeen years for a crime he did not commit.

His execution by lethal injection is just eight weeks away.

Small-time crook Benny Avrile is being pursued by the cops for his part in a high-profile robbery that ended in murder.

Both men will rely on trial lawyer and death-row advocate Jack Tobin to represent them.

About the author:  James Sheehan was a trial attorney in Florida.  He went into private practice and began to represent ordinary practice - people who'd lost their jobs or livelihoods, or were victims of police brutality or of racial, age, sexual and handicap discrimination.  With one associate and a secretary, James Sheehan has sued such giants of industry as United Parcel Service, IBM, and Delta Airlines.  He has long been interested in cases that have resulted in the death row penalty in America, and his two books, The Mayor of Lexington Avenue (2005) and The Law of Second Chances (2008) are based on some of the characters he has met and represented, and the injustices he has seen.  His third book featuring trial lawyer and death-row advocate, Jack Tobin, The Lawyer's Lawyer (2013) is out now.

Rating:  5/5