Full name: Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA

Author: Tim Junkin Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, Biographies, History, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781565124196 9781565125148 1565124197 1565125142

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. From the beginning, he proclaimed his innocence, but when he was granted a new trial because his prosecutors improperly withheld evidence, the second trial also resulted in conviction. Bloodsworth read every book on criminal law 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 in America, Kirk Bloodsworth was vindicated by DNA evidence. He was pardoned by the governor of Maryland and has gone on to become a tireless spokesman against capital punishment. Similar books: Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden Hell's Princess by Harold Schechter American Kingpin by Nick Bilton Furious Hours by Casey Cep The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett Ghosts of Mississippi by Maryanne Vollers Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger The Only Living Witness by Stephen G. Michaud The Butcher by Philip Carlo Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son by Gordon Burn Boss of Bosses by Joseph F. O'Brien The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas Oswald's Tale by Norman Mailer Tough Jews by Rich Cohen Sacco and Vanzetti by Bruce Watson Severed by John Gilmore Al Capone by Deirdre Bair Room 1219 by Greg Merritt The Profession of Violence by John Pearson Eliot Ness by Douglas Perry