River of Fire tells Sister Helen’s story in the years before the events chronicled in her acclaimed book, Dead Man Walking. The nation’s foremost advocate for the abolishment of the death penalty shares her journey as a spiritual leader who became a powerful advocate for criminal justice reform. Following his exoneration, Cotton and Thompson formed a powerful friendship and gained insight on both the fallibility of human memory and the legal system’s flaws. Cotton, however, was innocent and would wrongfully spend 10 years behind bars. She was able to escape, and eventually Ronald Cotton was identified as her attacker based on an unscientific police lineup. In 1989, Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment as she slept. Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton and Erin Torneo McMillian, who spent six years on death row, is played by Jaime Foxx in the film Just Mercy (premiering in limited release this Christmas Day) based on Stevenson’s book. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonĮqual Justice Institute founder Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his career to representing the most vulnerable people in the South: from a woman who was convicted of murder for giving birth to a stillborn child to Walter McMillian who became a murder suspect simply because he was in an interracial relationship. Related: Chat with Death Row Exoneree Anthony Graves on Facebook Live Graves shares the triumphant story of how he fought his wrongful conviction, which began in Texas when he was a poor, black, 26-year-old man and disadvantaged by a defense attorney who believed in his innocence but lacked experience in capital cases. Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul By Anthony GravesĪnthony Graves was incarcerated for 18 years-including 12 years on death row and 16 in solitary confinement-before a federal court overturned his capital murder conviction in 2010. Prosecutor-turned-activist for the innocent and current director of the Ohio Innocence Project, Mark Godsey takes the reader inside the complexities of the human mind and reveals how psychological patterns in judges, police, lawyers and juries generate shortcomings throughout the process of investigation and trial, and result in the wrongful conviction of innocent people. Photo by Cory Chalumeau.īlind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions by Mark Godsey
Tony Wright reading Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer.
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