Brief Against Death Author:Edgar Smith On June 6, 1957, the author of this book was convicted of the brutal murder of a fifteen-year-old girl. For more than eleven years he has lived in the shaodw of the electric chair in the Death House of the New Jersey State Prison. "Brief Against Death" is Edgar Smith's firsthand account of his arrest, interrogation, trial, imprisonment, and 4,... more »000 day battle to set aside the verdict and establish his innocence. Introduction by William F. buckley, Jr.« less