by Tim Junkin
—Washington Post Book World
“A chillingly persuasive argument against the death penalty.”
—St. Paul Pioneer Press
“The wrongful conviction problem is difficult to avoid, but not unsolvable, as this harrowing story shows.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Explains everything that went wrong to place an innocent man on death row for a crime he knew nothing about.”
—The Sunday Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News
“Junkin . . . strives for objectivity and factuality, particularly when revealing how right-minded people—police officers or prosecutors, judges or jurors—can make spectacularly wrong decisions that lead to the imprisonment and even the death of innocents.”
—The Miami Herald
“It is also a story about authorities waiting 10 more years before putting the DNA evidence from the crime scene into the FBI’s national genetic database.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Bloodsworth’s story is more than a tragic tale. It’s a gripping look into a capital murder case and an indictment against a flawed legal system.”
—Philadelphia Weekly, editor’s pick
“Junkin balances a calm, measured eye for the basic procedural of Bloodsworth’s arrest, trial, and death-row sentence without editorializing or abandoning an inquisitive mind, forever trying to present all sides to the issues at hand.”
—Baltimore City Paper, “Best Author of 2004”
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