Convicting the innocent
Subtitle: death row and America's broken system of justice
By: Stanley Cohen
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781632206466
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Judicial error; Death row; Capital punishment; Administration of Criminal justice
Description: "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 fro 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.
Notes: "A Herman Graf book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Preface: Executing the innocent; title: Part I. Official misconduct; title: Part II. Eyewitness error & false accusation; title: Part III. False forensics and junk science; title: Part IV. Snitch testimony; title: Part V. False confession; title: Part VI. Long-term confinement; title: Afterword: Unites States v. Criminal Justice.