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Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned

Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned


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This title presents the stories of five men unfairly condemned to death."Execution's Doorstep" tells the true stories of five lives trapped in a living nightmare: sentenced to die for a crime they didn't commit. Since capital punishment was reinstated in the mid-1970s, over 120 individuals have been proven wholly innocent of the crimes for which they were sentenced to death. But this statistic, as horrifying as it is, does not begin to tell the whole story. Leslie Lytle confronts the human suffering behind these miscarriages of justice in her effort to reveal how and why they occurred.Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, Lytle guides the reader through the fateful crimes, the arrests, the trials, the incarcerations, the struggles to prove innocence, and the difficult readjustments to life in the free world. "Execution's Doorstep" is more than a gripping human-interest story. As Lytle shows, the criminal justice and capital punishment systems that we have established to protect us are fallible and subject to the same incompetencies, petty corruptions, and politicizations to which all human institutions are prone. As we relive these heart-rending stories of innocents damned, this book poses a simple question: can we trust the life and death of any man to a system run by men?

About the Author :
LESLIE LYTLE has an M.A. from Antioch University and serves on the board of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing, as a staff writer for the community newspaper Sewanee Mountain Messenger, and as editor of Local Action and Beyond, the journal of the Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace. She was recently appointed the Center's executive director.

Review :
"Wonder how it could be that 126 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated? What's wrong with our court system? Here's a promise: if you accompany Ms. Lytle into these five stories you'll not only 'get it,' you may be moved to join our efforts to change it." - Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and Death of Innocents "Damn, I wish I had written this book! Leslie Lytle has done a masterful job of drawing out her subjects in interviews, as Studs Terkel might have, and telling their stories in fast-paced narratives, as John Grisham might have." - Rob Warden, Executive Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781555536787
  • Publisher: Northeastern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northeastern University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1555536786
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned


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