
Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned (Hardback)
Leslie Lytle (author)
£25.95
Hardback
Published: 15/12/2008
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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?
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
ISBN: 9781555536787
Weight: 576 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27 mm
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