Dennis My Friend on Death Row

Author:   Jan Tystad
Publisher:   Authorhouse UK
ISBN:  

9781728396033


Pages:   134
Publication Date:   25 November 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Dennis My Friend on Death Row


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The Norwegian journalist and author Jan Tystad tells in this book about his American pen friend who has been on Death Row in Florida for 33 years. The prisoner tells in his letters how it feels to be isolated for so many years, and how he has been helped by listening to music player and follow the news and documentaries on TV. Dennis has showed an unbelievable strength in such an environment, helped very much by classic music which he can listen to for hours. He has also developed great knowledge about the world and the politicians who runs it, by listening to news and documentaries on his small TV in the cell. Dennis is only allowed out of the cell for five hours a week to walk in the forecourt. He finds happiness and friendship in letter writing and fight every day to prevent that the death sentence is executed. He hope that the governor of Florida will change the sentence to life prisonment, which would mean that he will be a free man, the life sentence is 25 years in Florida.

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Author:   Jan Tystad
Publisher:   Authorhouse UK
Imprint:   Authorhouse UK
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781728396033


ISBN 10:   1728396034
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   25 November 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Jan Tystad is a Norwegian journalist and author, living in London for many years. He has been a correspondent for Norwegian newspapers in London and written seven books in Norwegian. The author has been a war correspondent and reported from wars in Nigeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Bosnia and written about the famines in Ethiopia and Sudan. He has written books about hunger and refugees and the arms trade. He has also written two books about children in wars. The author was born in Bergen, Norway in 1936. He experienced as a child the German invasion and occupation of Norway as a four years old boy. After the war he worked in local Norwegian newspaper before he took his law degree I 1964 at the university of Oslo. Then he went back to become a journalist in one of the leading Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet. He now lives in London and he has been a pen friend for eight years with Dennis Sochor, who has been on Death Row in Florida for 33 years, This is a book based on the letters between him and the prisoner and a critical view about the use of death penalty. Dennis Sochor is very happy now because the book will be published in English.

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