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Lemon Andersen reads a diary entry by William Van Poyck, a prisoner at Sussex I State Prison in Waverly, Virginia, during the 2009 event Breakout: Voices fro...
Here's a reading I did on 2/27/14 at the Cooper Union Building, NYC; this reading was from PEN's "Breakout: Voices from Inside" program, which highlights win...
I have self-published an award-winning autobiography, A Checkered Past, and a novel, Quietus, and several of my short stories have been published in various literary journals. I maintain a blog, www.deathrowdiary.blogspot.com, and my column appears at www.deathrowspeaks.info.
William Van Poyck, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m., 23 minutes after the injection process began at Florida State Prison. “Set me free,” were his final words. Van Poyck's case garnered international attention because he published three books and maintained a blog while on death row.
13 cze 2013 · William Van Poyck and Frank Valdes ambushed a prison van outside a West Palm Beach doctor's office in a failed attempt to free James O'Brien - with whom they'd served time.
15 cze 2013 · Lying on an execution gurney, his arms outstretched, his body covered by a white sheet, William Van Poyck uttered his last words: “Set me free.”
13 cze 2013 · Van Poyck and Frank Valdes ambushed a prison van outside a West Palm Beach doctor's office in a failed attempt to free James O'Brien — with whom they'd served time.