Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 243 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814722229
Content:
How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons-9 1/2 of them on death row-for a murder he did not commit. This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at society's margins can be wrongfully convicted, and the extraordinary difficulty of correcting such a wrong
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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An Expendable Man; Contents; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Countdown; Death in Culpeper; A Piedmont Son; Arrest; Confessions; The Trial; Prisoner; Deadline; A Discovery; Appeals; Strategies; An Ending; Revival; Freedom Delayed; The Aftermath; Notes; Recommended Reading; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814722220
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe An Expendable Man : The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr
Language:
English
