The Ordeal Of Larry Hicks
May, 1981
Two weeks before he was scheduled to die in the Indiana electric chair, Larry Hicks, age 21, found someone who would listen to him. That was in May 1979, when Indianapolis attorney Nile Stanton was visiting another prisoner at the state prison, heard Hicks's unusual story and decided to check it out. A year and a half later, after an intensive investigation supported by the Playboy Foundation and a new trial that had all the elements of a television melodrama, Hicks walked out of prison a free m...
