Author: Linda Carter BrinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Life and Death in Hickory Fork
Author: Linda Carter BrinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Master's Theses in Education
Author: T. A. LamkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
South Atlantic Review
Author: Ghost of the Innocent Man
Author: Benjamin RachlinPublisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316311502
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the Best Books of 2017: National Public Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness "Remarkable . . . Captivating . . . Rachlin is a skilled storyteller." --New York Times Book Review "A gripping legal-thriller mystery . . . Profoundly elevates good-cause advocacy to greater heights--to where innocent lives are saved." --USA Today "A crisply written page turner." --NPR A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the opportunity for meaningful reform. When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his incarceration to the tireless efforts to prove his innocence and the identity of the true perpetrator. These were spearheaded by his relentless champion, Christine Mumma, a cofounder of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission. That commission--unprecedented at its inception in 2006--remains a model organization unlike any other in the country, and one now responsible for a growing number of exonerations. With meticulous, prismatic research and pulse-quickening prose, Benjamin Rachlin presents one man's tragedy and triumph. The jarring and unsettling truth is that the story of Willie J. Grimes, for all its outrage, dignity, and grace, is not a unique travesty. But through the harrowing and suspenseful account of one life, told from the inside, we experience the full horror of wrongful conviction on a national scale. Ghost of the Innocent Man is both rare and essential, a masterwork of empathy. The book offers a profound reckoning not only with the shortcomings of our criminal justice system but also with its possibilities for redemption.
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
Author: Susanna MoodiePublisher: New York : De Witt & Davenport
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Voices From The Margins: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves
Author: Work Projects AdministrationPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 6002
Book Description
Good Press presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves from 17 American States". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Step back in time and meet everyday people from another era: This edition brings to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from 17 U.S. southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia
History of Randolph County, Indiana
Author: E. TuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Randolph County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Author: Brown
Author: