false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175630624m/538650.jpg 538650 1 In the neighborhood of Hell&#8217;s Kitchen, 1959, a playground confrontation leaves two white youths bludgeoned to death by a gang of Puerto Rican kids. Sixteen-year-old Salvador Agron, who wore a red-lined satin cape, was charged with the murders, though no traces of blood were found on his dagger. At seventeen, Agron was the youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the electric chair. After nearly two years in the Death House at Sing Sing Prison, a group of prominent citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the governor of Puerto Rico, convinced Governor Rockefeller to commute Agron&#8217;s sentence to one of life imprisonment.<br>In 1973 Richard Jacoby began a voluminous, twelve-year correspondence with Agron. His <i>Conversations with the Capeman</i> is guaranteed to challenge deeply held notions of crime, punishment, and redemption. Salvador Agron was released from prison in 1979 and died in the Bronx in 1986 at the age of forty-two.<br><br>With a new preface<br> 526048 15 7 2004 Conversations with the Capeman: The Untold Story of Salvador Agron total:2|5:1|4:1| 2 9 7 2 4 0 false false Sat Feb 21 06:10:45 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 19 11:14:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 04 13:47:45 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 13:48:41 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 07:03:17 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 07:03:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 23:49:45 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 23:49:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 09 16:58:30 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 16:58:32 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jan 29 12:07:17 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 12:07:25 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 25 22:40:04 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 22:40:11 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=538650