Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit. - Couverture rigide

Cook, Kerry Max

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ISBN 10 : 006057464X ISBN 13 : 9780060574642

Editeur : William Morrow, 2007

Synopsis

“Immensely compelling. ... If it were fiction, no one would believe it. Kerry Cook’s account of his nightmare is fascinating.” –John Grisham

“Cook’s story is so gripping that only a heart of steel won’t break after reading it.” –People

An Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime Book | A Dallas Morning News Bestseller

The harrowing, inspiring, and beautifully written story of a man wrongly sent to death row for two decades by the state of Texas.

In 1977, at age 19, Kerry Max Cook was arrested and wrongly convicted of the capital murder of a young woman in Tyler, Texas. On death row, when Cook wasn’t struggling to survive amid vicious inmates and inhumane conditions, he was fighting a justice system determined to muzzle him and loath to admit their horrendous mistake. Through his perseverance and the hard work of a team of crusading lawyers, his death sentence was reversed-11 days before his planned execution in late 1996.

Here is Cook’s story, in his own heartbreaking and moving words. Sure to spark debate about the American judicial system and the death penalty, Chasing Justice is an inspiration to anyone who has struggled to master the hand life has dealt.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kerry Max Cook was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and spent much of his youth on army bases in Europe. In 1972, he and his family returned to the United States to live in Texas. Since gaining his freedom, Cook has been an outspoken advocate for legal reform. He has made numerous national and international media appearances and has lectured at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago. His story was incorporated into the acclaimed play The Exonerated, of which he is often a cast member. He was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to write Chasing Justice.

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Kerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police and prosecutorial misconduct in American history.

In the summer of 1977, Cook was staying in Tyler, TX. He met an attractive young woman named Linda Edwards and was invited back to her apartment for a drink and left his fingerprints on the sliding glass door. Four days later, Ms. Edwards was found brutally murdered. When the police dusted for prints, they found Cook's and immediately arrested him. Edward Jackson testified that Cook confessed to the murder during a jailhouse conversation. Jackson was set free, only to kill again several years later. Cook, on the other hand, was convicted and sentenced to death.

He was thrown into a world for which no one could be prepared, and he survived beatings, sexual abuse, and depression; all the while, he fought against a justice system that was determined to keep him quiet and loath to admit a mistake. Through the work of a crusading group of lawyers who forced a series of retrials, his case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ordered the case be reconsidered. It wasn't until the spring of 1999 that Cook was finally able to put the nightmare behind him: long-suppressed DNA evidence had linked James Mayfield, Linda Edwards's ex-lover, to the crime.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006057464X
• ISBN 13: 9780060574642
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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