The Lynching of Peter Wheeler

by Debra Komar

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl -- was strung up with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it was a lynching all the same. Now, a re-examination of his case using modern forensic science reveals one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Canadian history. On the night of January 27, 1896, 14-year-old Annie Kempton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864924178
• ISBN13: 9780864924179
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"