Biography / Criminal Studies / Race
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Conversations
with the Capeman "A very New York story. . . . Salvador
Agron looked like a rock 'n' roll hoodlum. He looked like the
1950s." In Hell'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's
sentence to one of life imprisonment. Richard Jacoby, who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, now lives in Santa Monica, California, where he has worked for more than twenty years as a special education teacher for profoundly disabled children. For more publicity information, call our marketing department at 608-263-0734 or e-mail uwiscpress@uwpress.wisc.edu |
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