A child emigrates from Spain to Puerto Rico in 1870, adapts to a new culture, and strives through hurricanes, disease and war to become a prominent tobacco planter. With high hopes, he sends his son Antonio to Albany Law School in New York, but the young man loses his will, commits an atrocious crime, and is executed on the electric chair at the Sing Sing penitentiary. Antonio's spirit returns one hundred years later to persuade a family member, who is also a lawyer and amateur genealogist, to uncover his wrongful execution. Amid a historical, cultural and legal backdrop spanning three...
A child emigrates from Spain to Puerto Rico in 1870, adapts to a new culture, and strives through hurricanes, disease and war to become a prominent to...
On January 7, 1916, Antonio Ponton, a Puerto Rican student at Albany Law School who suffered from mental illness, became the first Hispanic executed in the electric chair at the Sing Sing Prison in New York. Author Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini tells a fictionalized account of Ponton's story in her historical novel ANTONIO'S WILL, A Story of Sacrifice, Love, Tragedy and Injustice, the first book in The Antonio's Series. This second book, ANTONIO'S GRACE, An Island's Plea for a Native Son, is a work of non-fiction in which the author takes a closer look at the trial and clemency process in the Ponton...
On January 7, 1916, Antonio Ponton, a Puerto Rican student at Albany Law School who suffered from mental illness, became the first Hispanic executed i...
En el 1870, cuando tenia apenas 14 anos, Manuel Ponton Fernandez emigra de Espana a Puerto Rico, se adapta a una nueva cultura y enfrenta huracanes, enfermedades y guerra para convertirse en un prominente plantador de tabaco y levantar una bonita familia. Con profundas esperanzas, Manuel envia a su hijo Antonio a estudiar derecho en Albany Law School en Nueva York, pero el joven pierde su voluntad, comete un atroz crimen y es ejecutado en la silla electrica en la prision de Sing Sing. El espiritu de Antonio regresa cien anos despues para persuadir a un miembro de la familia, quien es abogada...
En el 1870, cuando tenia apenas 14 anos, Manuel Ponton Fernandez emigra de Espana a Puerto Rico, se adapta a una nueva cultura y enfrenta huracanes, e...
