عنوان

An expendable man :

شابک

0814722229

شابک

0814722792

شابک

1417588209

شابک

9780814722220

شابک

9780814722794

شابک

9781417588206

شابک اشتباه

0814722393

شابک اشتباه

9780814722398

شماره

b700954

عنوان اصلي

An expendable man :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the near-execution of Earl Washington, Jr. /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Margaret Edds.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

New York University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.

متن يادداشت

How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons--9 1/2 of them on death row--for a murder he did not commit.This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at society's margins can be wrongfully convicted, and the extraordinary difficulty of correcting such a wrong once it occurs.Washington was eventually freed in February 2001 not because of the legal and judicial systems, but in spite of them. While DNA testing was central to his eventual pardon, such tests would never have occurred without an unusually talented and committed legal team and without a series of incidents that are best described as pure luck.Margaret Edds makes the chilling argument that some other "expendable men" almost certainly have been less fortunate than Washington. This, she writes, is "the secret, shameful underbelly" of America's retention of capital punishment. Such wrongful executions may not happen often, but anyone who doubts that innocent people have been executed in the United States should remember the remarkable series of events necessary to save Earl Washington Jr. from such a fate.

عنوان

Expendable man.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0814722229

موضوع مستند نشده

Washington, Earl.

موضوع مستند نشده

Washington, Earl.

موضوع مستند نشده

African American prisoners, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Capital punishment-- Moral and ethical aspects-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Death row inmates-- United States, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Discrimination in criminal justice administration-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

DNA fingerprinting-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

People with mental disabilities and crime-- United States, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

African American prisoners.

موضوع مستند نشده

Capital punishment-- Moral and ethical aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Death row inmates.

موضوع مستند نشده

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

موضوع مستند نشده

DNA fingerprinting.

موضوع مستند نشده

LAW / Civil Law.

موضوع مستند نشده

People with mental disabilities and crime.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Edds, Margaret,1947-

تاريخ عمليات

20201207164234.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y