Boy from Bed-Stuy: The Case for Sparing the Life of Shawn Rogers

A man is scheduled to die. The question is whether he should.The Boy from Bed-Stuy is a searing, meticulously documented account of Shawn Rogers—a man sentenced to death for a brutal prison killing—and the life that led him there. From a childhood shaped by foster care, poverty, head trauma, and institutional failure to the violence that changed multiple lives forever, this book confronts the full...