Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit

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Label

Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit

Title remainder

my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit

Statement of responsibility

Kerry Max Cook

Title variation

Chasing justice

Title variation remainder

my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didnt commit

Creator

• Cook, Kerry Max, 1956-
• trueCook, Kerry Max, 1956-

Subject

• Death row inmates -- Texas -- Biography
• trueDeath row prisoners -- Texas
• trueJudicial error -- Texas
• truePolice misconduct
• Trials (Murder) -- Texas | Tyler
• trueTrials (Murder) -- Tyler, Texas
• Trials (Rape) -- Texas | Tyler
• Cook, Kerry Max, 1956- -- Trials, litigation, etc
• trueTrue Crime -- Investigations and Trials
• trueTrue Crime -- Murder
• trueTyler, Texas
• trueTrials (Rape) -- Tyler, Texas
• trueCook, Kerry Max, 1956- -- Trials, litigation, etc

Genre

• trueTrue Crime
• trueTrials, litigation, etc
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

"Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Finally in 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

345.764/22502523

Index

no index present

LC call number

KF224.C66

LC item number

C66 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult