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 h…
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: | 135mm x 216mm |
| 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
Tim Junkin
Tim Junkin is a lawyer and an award-winning novelist who lives in Maryland.
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