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novelesque_life's review against another edition
4.0
Rating: 4 STARS
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In this anthology (of essays), best-selling authors teams up with the wrongfully convicted to tell their stories. We see fourteen men and women tell their story from arrest, conviction, and freedom. It is heartbreaking and yet hopeful. It is terrifying to see how these people were convicted and spent years in prison with everyone thinking they committed a crime they are completely innocent of. The lawyers and teams getting these cases overturned are quite inspiring. It is a quick read, but some of the stories are too sparse and I wish there was more information given.
(Review Not on Blog)
In this anthology (of essays), best-selling authors teams up with the wrongfully convicted to tell their stories. We see fourteen men and women tell their story from arrest, conviction, and freedom. It is heartbreaking and yet hopeful. It is terrifying to see how these people were convicted and spent years in prison with everyone thinking they committed a crime they are completely innocent of. The lawyers and teams getting these cases overturned are quite inspiring. It is a quick read, but some of the stories are too sparse and I wish there was more information given.
irongold's review against another edition
4.0
Intriguing book about the injustice of the American criminal system. The book was good, and shed much needed light on the slap-the-crime-on-nearest-black-guy thought process that runs rampant. Nice to see some organizations taking up cases that wayyyyyyyyyyy distorted the evidence and forced confessions, but it was just too long, and the stories all ran together, and I was getting bored by the end. I would it rather have been about maybe 3 or 4 cases in depth with more data, than 20 summaries.
trutiffany's review against another edition
4.0
So sad that so many people have been wrongly convicted of crimes. Worse though is the blatant ignoring of facts, torture, and racism. This book opened my eyes to injustice in the legal system.
ejdecoster's review
3.0
Effective in highlighting the many ways criminal trials and prosecutions can go awry, from procedural errors to incompetence or misconduct. The chapter postscripts were informative and concise. The individual stories were a little too short for me, personally; they engendered a general sense of compassion and outrage but didn't give much space to see the stories as individual. The editorial remarks prefacing each story leaned a little melodramatic, where I think the stories could have been left to stand on their own. The book profits are going to a good cause, otherwise I'd suggest just keeping up with the news as a different means to the same end.
midnightbookgirl's review against another edition
4.0
I spent much of my childhood believing that our justice system was overwhelmingly fair and transparent. Probably like many of the jurors that served on the cases of these innocent men and women, I thought that for them to even make it to trial meant that the cops and prosecutors must believe they had the right person. My eyes have been opened over the years, thanks in part to The Innocence Project, and even wider still with this book. Top authors like Lee Child and Sara Paretsky team up with 14 exonerees to tell their stories- the shock, anger, depression, and ultimately the hope that helped them persevere. I cannot recommend this book enough!
jessschira's review
4.0
Interesting book. I enjoyed it, but I wish the essays had gone into more detail about the individuals were exonerated.
midnightbookgirl's review
4.0
I spent much of my childhood believing that our justice system was overwhelmingly fair and transparent. Probably like many of the jurors that served on the cases of these innocent men and women, I thought that for them to even make it to trial meant that the cops and prosecutors must believe they had the right person. My eyes have been opened over the years, thanks in part to The Innocence Project, and even wider still with this book. Top authors like Lee Child and Sara Paretsky team up with 14 exonerees to tell their stories- the shock, anger, depression, and ultimately the hope that helped them persevere. I cannot recommend this book enough!