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The confession
Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row: his fate had been decided. Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from executions. Over 400 miles away in Kansas, Travis faces a fate of his own: an inoperable brain tumour will soon deliver the end. Reflecting on his miserable life, he decides to do what's right. After year of silence he ist ready to confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges and politicians that they're about to execute an innocent man?
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‘A Pin to See the Peepshow’: Culture, Fiction and Selfhood in Edith Thompson’s Letters, 1921–1922
On Jan 9, 1923 Edith Thompson was hanged in Holloway Prison. Around the same time, her lover Freddy Bywaters went to the gallows in Pentonville. Edith, 29, managed a milliner's shop and Bywaters, 21, was a merchant seaman. The couple had been found guilty of murdering Edith's husband, Percy--stabbed by Bywaters in a Street near the Thompsons' home in Ilford--after an affair lasting 16 months. Edith did not participate in this attack; witnesses described her as shocked and shaken. Despite this, she was convicted on the evidence of letters she had written to Freddy while he was at sea. These, the prosecution argued, showed that Edith had plotted to poison Percy and incited Freddy to remove his rival. After a sensational Old Bailey trial, judge and jury agreed. Their controversial verdict was never universally accepted. The case is now considered a horrific miscarriage of justice. Here, Houlbrook uses Edith's letters to explore the social, cultural and psychological significance of the practices of fictionality in which she engaged.
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Facing life : the re-trial of Evan Zimmerman
Evan Zimmerman was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, and a jury found him guilty. But Zimmerman made it back to court after he was able to show that his initial lawyer was so ineffective he deserved a new trial. \"Facing Life\" captures the harrowing experience as the new trial unfolds. From the defense team's strategizing to the 11th- hour moves and the shattering conclusion, see how the tortuous process affected Zimmerman, who was nearly driven insane by the thought of going to prison again for a crime he said he did not commit. Zimmerman's attorneys were Keith Belzer of La Crosse and Keith Findley, a UW-Madison law professor. Zimmerman spent three years in prison before he was released on bond. Zimmerman is the fourth inmate freed through the efforts- of Findley's group, the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which operates out of the UW- Madison Law School.
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That night
\"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts Toni's innocence; and certainly not the group of women who made Toni's life miserable in high school and may have darker secrets than anyone realizes. Before Toni can truly move on, she must risk everything to find out the truth and clear her name\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Don't believe it
Follows a documentary filmmaker and crusading journalist, Sidney Ryan, who has exonerated several inmates convicted of murder ... Sidney agrees to take up the case of medical school graduate Grace Sebold, who has been in a St. Lucian prison for ten years since the murder of her boyfriend, Julian, who plunged to his death during spring break at a beach resort. Sidney finds more suspects, new evidence, and holes in the original investigation, leading authorities to reopen the probe. As her television series, \"The Girl of Sugar Beach,\" draws to its end and Grace gets released, Sidney discovers she might have been played, and could be in serious danger.
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Sweet vengeance
\"Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband-- until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned on a technicality, and she's released on bail to await a new trial. Hounded by the press, Tessa retreats to the small tropical island owned by her late husband's pharmaceutical company. There, she begins to gather knowledge about her case. For the first time since her nightmare began, Tessa feels a sense of purpose in working to expose the truth and avenge her family. One by one, the guilty will be led to justice, and Tessa can gain closure\"-- Provided by publisher.
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