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Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. To be a black teen from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of eliminating an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within a few minutes of the electric seat - nearly twelve times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his account is the kind that pervades the history of American justice. Here, in the hands of historian S. Jonathan Bass, Washington's ordeal and life are rescued from anonymity and be a moving parable of one man's survival and perseverance in a hellish system. He Message or calls Me by Lightning is both a engaging legal crisis and a brutal depiction of the Jim Crow South that makes us to adopt account of the lives cast away by systemic racism.
