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From Pulitzer Reward champion Raymond Bonner comes the gripping history of any grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on fatality row. In January 1982, an older white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately caught Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man without previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having washed her gutters and glass windows, but barely three months after the victim's body was found, he was attempted, convicted, and sentenced to fatality. Elmore had been on fatality row for eleven years whenever a young attorney called Diana Holt first discovered of his case. After attending the School of Texas Institution of Legislation, Holt was eager to help the disenfranchised and voiceless - she herself had been a childhood victim of mistreatment. It required little scrutiny for Holt to discern that Elmore's case reeked of injustice - suffering from incompetent court-appointed security lawyers, a virulent prosecution, and research that was both misplaced and contaminated. It was the reason for a lifetime for the spirited, hardworking lawyer or attorney. Holt would spend greater than a decade struggling on Elmore's behalf. With the exemplary moral dedication and tenacious investigation that have recognized his reporting job, Bonner follows Holt's battle to save Elmore's life and shows us how his case is a textbook exemplory case of what can fail in the American justice system. He reviews authorities work, research gathering, jury selection, work of court-appointed attorneys, latitude of judges, iniquities in regulations, jail informants, and the appeals process. Throughout, the actions and motivations of both unlikely heroes and shameful villains inside our justice system are vividly exposed. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a essential contribution to your nation's ongoing and progressively important controversy about inequality and the fatality penalty.
