Chasing justice, my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit, Kerry Max Cook
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Label
Chasing justice, my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit, Kerry Max Cook
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Chasing justice
Oclc number
71006815
Responsibility statement
Kerry Max Cook
Sub title
my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit
Summary
Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Finally in 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted.--From publisher description