Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Cahill, Thomas.

Summary: Relates the life of an African American inmate, sentenced to death for taking part in a robbery in which a victim was killed, and for whom opponents of the death penalty spent twelve years unsuccessfuly trying to have the case reviewed and his sentence overturned.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009

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Summary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Robertson, Suzanne Craig

Summary: "The fascinating story of a friendship with an inmate on death row. It was a clash of race, privilege, and circumstance when Alan Robertson first signed up to visit Cecil Johnson on Death Row and offer spiritual guidance. The minister's wife Suzanne had no intention of being involved until a fateful chance phone call. That Cecil and she eventually became such close friends-a white middle-class...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morehouse Publishing 2023

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Summary: In 2001, Wanda Jean Allen was given a lethal injection by the state of Oklahoma, making her the first black woman to be executed in America in fifty years. Chronicles the methodical way the criminal justice system proceeds to execute Wanda Jean, a convicted murderess with a low IQ bordering on retardation. While pleas for clemency are exhausted, she faces her inevitable death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005

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Rossi, Richard Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vision 2004

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Bass, S. Jonathan

Summary: "... reconstruction of the ... life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017

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Potts, Jim

Summary: A crime wave swept California in the late 1970s. Several young girls were abducted, raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to death. Law clerk by day, family man by night. In 1982, Jim Potts—a brilliant, idealistic, African American law student—is honored when one of his professors recruits him to assist in writing a death penalty appeal on behalf...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vesuvian Books 2021

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Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

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Summary: In his final days in office, Governor George Ryan, was left to decide whether 167 death row inmates should live or die. Deadline details the gripping drama of the state's clemency hearings highlighting one man's historic actions against the system.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004

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Sheff, David

Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who became one of America's most respected Buddhist practitioners during his two decades in solitary confinement in San Quentin"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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Summary: "Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful first-person stories of dozens of men who are living on death row in the United States, offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the most marginalized people in America"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2021

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Grisham, John.

Summary: When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Publishing Group 2010

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Summary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012

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Christianson, Scott.

Contents: Introduction -- Sing Sing -- Death house -- Arrival -- The innocent -- Rules -- Guard -- Shrinks -- Ties -- Cases -- Clemency -- Escape attempts -- Stay -- The letter -- Thursday -- The chair -- Witness -- Resistance -- Remains -- Settling up -- Prisoners legally executed at Sing Sing Prison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2000

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Summary: Fighting for life in the death-belt considers the controversial institution of capital punishment in America through the eyes of Stephen Bright, the nations's leading anti-death penalty lawyer. For twenty-five years Bright has defended death row inmates deep in the heart of the nations' death-belt - the Southeastern states where ninety percent of executions occur.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E.M. Productions 2005

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