An Expendable Man : the Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr.

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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 was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in C...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edds, Margaret
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2003.
Temas:
Washington, Earl.
Washington, Earl
DNA fingerprinting > United States.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
People with mental disabilities and crime > United States > Biography.
Death row inmates > United States > Biography.
African American prisoners > Biography.
Empreintes génétiques > États-Unis.
Peine de mort > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale > États-Unis.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle et criminalité > États-Unis > Biographies.
Condamnés à mort > États-Unis > Biographies.
Prisonniers noirs américains > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
African American prisoners
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects
Death row inmates
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
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People with mental disabilities and crime
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (260 pages)
ISBN:9780814722794
0814722792

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