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About Time: Surviving Ireland´s Death Row
Peter Pringle
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Description for About Time: Surviving Ireland´s Death Row
Paperback. Peter Pringle was one of the last people to be sentenced to death in Ireland when he was wrongly convicted of killing two gardai in a shoot-out in Ballaghaderreen in 1980. His sentence was commuted to 40 years in prison by President Patrick Hillery and eventually overturned in 1995. This is his story." Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: `Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ... the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death.' The problem was that Peter did not commit this crime. Facing a sentence of death by hanging, Peter sought the inner strength and determination to survive. When his sentence was changed to forty years without remission he set out to prove his innocence. ... Read more
Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: `Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ... the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death.' The problem was that Peter did not commit this crime. Facing a sentence of death by hanging, Peter sought the inner strength and determination to survive. When his sentence was changed to forty years without remission he set out to prove his innocence. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845887605
SKU
V9781845887605
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Peter Pringle
Peter Pringle was one of the last people to be sentenced to death in Ireland when he was wrongly convicted of killing two garda in a shoot-out in Ballaghaderreen, Ireland in 1980.
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