Bibliograph

Convicting the innocent, death row and America's broken system of justice, Stanley Cohen

Type

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Convicting the innocent, death row and America's broken system of justice, Stanley Cohen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-292) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Convicting the innocent

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

944961334

Responsibility statement

Stanley Cohen

Sub title

death row and America's broken system of justice

Summary

"Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives--either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn. Award-winning journalist Stanley Cohen chronicles more than one hundred of these cases from the 1973 case of one of the first death row exonerees, David Keaton, to multiple cases as of 2015 that resulted from the corrupt practices of NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella (with nearly seventy Brooklyn cases under review for wrongful conviction)."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Preface: Executing the innocent -- Part I. Official misconduct -- Part II. Eyewitness error & false accusation -- Part III. False forensics or junk science -- Part IV. Snitch testimony -- Part V. False confession -- Part VI. Long-term confinement -- Afterword: United States v. Criminal Justice

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