Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit / Kerry Max Cook.
| Author/creator | Cook, Kerry Max, 1956- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : William Morrow, ©2007. |
| Description | x, 342 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Abstract | 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. |
| LCCN | 2006049172 |
| ISBN | 006057464X |
| ISBN | 9780060574642 |