 On Feb. 4, 1999, four New York City Police officers killed Amadou Diallo on his own doorstep in a hail of 41 bullets. Jesse Thyne, an American Peace Corps volunteer who lived and worked with Amadou s family in his home village in Africa, died there less than a year after Amadou s shooting. "Death of Two Sons" examines the political, personal, and spiritual implications of these two deaths.