An Expendable Man - Edds, Margaret
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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 spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons--9 1/2 of them on death row--for a murder he did not commit. The 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 freed in February 2001 not because of the legal and judicial systems,…mehr

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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 spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons--9 1/2 of them on death row--for a murder he did not commit. The 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 freed in February 2001 not because of the legal and judicial systems, but in spite of them. Anyone who doubts that innocent men have been executed in American should remember the remarkable series of events necessary to save Earl Washington from such a fate.
Autorenporträt
"As a reporter and now editorial writer for the Virginian-Pilot, the state's largest paper, Margaret Edds interviewed Earl Washington Jr. extensively and worked closely with his attorneys and all the principles of the case. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books on southern and African American issues, Free at Last and Claiming the Dream: The Victorious Campaign of Douglas Wilder of Virginia.