Sharon Public Library Presents Judge Michael Ponsor, Author of "The Hanging Judge"

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Ponsor will speak about his book "The Hanging Judge" at the Sharon Public Library.  A novel based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in MA in more than fifty years, this extraordinary debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trial.

When a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, MA claims the lives of a drug dealer and a nurse at a neighborhood clinic, the police arrest a black drug dealer.  With no death penalty in MA, the US attorney shifts the double homicide out of state jurisidiction into federal court so that he can pursue the death penalty.