An Expendable Man : the Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr.
2003
HV9468.W35 E33 2003
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Title
An Expendable Man : the Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr.
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ISBN
9780814722794 (electronic bk.)
0814722792 (electronic bk.)
0814722792 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details
New York : NYU Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (260 pages)
Call Number
HV9468.W35 E33 2003
Summary
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.
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An Expendable Man; Contents; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Countdown; Death in Culpeper; A Piedmont Son; Arrest; Confessions; The Trial; Prisoner; Deadline; A Discovery; Appeals; Strategies; An Ending; Revival; Freedom Delayed; The Aftermath; Notes; Recommended Reading; Index; About the Author.