Bloodsworth
The True Story of One Man's Triumph over Injustice
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2005
Summary
Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it. SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking CHARGED WITH THE RAPE AND MURDER of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland s gas chamber. Maintaining his innocence, he read everything on criminal law available in the prison library and persuaded a new lawyer to petition for the then-innovative DNA testing. After nine years in one of the harshest prisons …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781565125148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1565125142 |
| Author: | Tim Junkin |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 421g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
| Series: | Shannon Ravenel Books (Paperback) |
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Critics Review
“Kirk Bloodsworth is an American Josef K., an icon of a system that failed him–and justice–at every turn.” – Washington Post Book World
“Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it.” -SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking “The reader will be swept along to an amazing and shocking conclusion that could never be believed as fiction.” -JOSEPH WAMBAUGH, author of The New Centurions “Unbroken by the horror and anguish of his ordeal, [Kirk Bloodsworth] has now dedicated himself to saving other innocents from the living hell he endured.” -SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
About The Author
Tim Junkin
Tim Junkin is a lawyer and an award-winning novelist who lives in Maryland.
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