Murder Unpunished

In Murder Unpunished, defense attorney Thornton W. Price III recounts one of the most shocking crimes in Arizona prison history—the 1977 murder of Waymond Small, a Black inmate who was about to testify before the state legislature about gang violence. Stabbed in front of sixty witnesses by fellow prisoner Terry Lee Farmer, Small’s killing sparked an all-out war between the State of Arizona and the Aryan Brotherhood.

Drawing on 16,000 pages of court records and extensive interviews, Price offers an insider’s account of the trials, the defense strategies, and the violent world of prison gangs including the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mau Maus, and the Mexican Mafia. More than a true-crime story, this book reveals the deep challenges of prosecuting prison murders, the code of silence among convicts, and how Arizona struggled to rein in prison violence during a pivotal era.

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