An expendable man : the near-execution of Earl Washington, Jr. / Margaret Edds.
- Title
- An expendable man : the near-execution of Earl Washington, Jr. / Margaret Edds.
- Published by
- New York : New York University Press, c2003.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 243 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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 a rape and murder he did not commit.
- Uniform title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Washington, Earl
- African American prisoners -- Biography
- Death row inmates -- United States -- Biography
- People with mental disabilities and crime -- United States -- Biography
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
- Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- DNA fingerprinting -- United States
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Contents
- 1 Countdown 1 -- 2 Death in Culpeper 10 -- 3 A Piedmont Son 16 -- 4 Arrest 27 -- 5 Confessions 35 -- 6 The Trial 45 -- 7 Prisoner 69 -- 8 Deadline 83 -- 9 A Discovery 96 -- 10 Appeals 113 -- 11 Strategies 130 -- 12 An Ending 152 -- 13 Revival 166 -- 14 Freedom Delayed 184 -- 15 The Aftermath 196.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain