Actual Innocence (Abridged): Five Days to Exexution and Other Dispatches of the Wrongly Convicted Audiobook

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• “Ought to be required reading for anyone who believes that only the guilty are put to death…I would recommend Actual Innocence under normal circumstances. It’s gripping. But these are not normal circumstances. All over the country politicians are being forced to take a second look at capital punishment. This book will give them an eyeful.”

  — Washington Post

• “Shines a spotlight on the myriad errors that can send the wrong person to jail—and reiterates the argument prosecutors make when labeling DNA a powerful ‘tool’ of criminal justice.”

  — Boston Herald

• “In Actual Innocence, [the authors] make a compelling case that wrongful convictions are far more common than we think. Their book…is a riveting collection of judicial horror stories. Any chapter can make your palms sweat and your teeth grind…A book as powerful as the DNA science it reports on.”

  — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• “A book that makes a case for readily available post-conviction DNA testing…An astonishing compendium of stories about miscarriages of justice, the book looks into the causes and effects of defects in a criminal justice system that, as of last summer, had sent at least 64 people to prison and death row for crimes committed by others.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Raises a powerful challenge to the assumption that all is pretty much well with the legal system…A troubling portrayal of the criminal justice system from within its well-guarded walls.”

  — New York Times

• “Actual Innocence documents the numerous instances in which men convicted of serious crimes like rape and murder were ultimately cleared…A gripping book that deserves to be widely read. It takes the very important topic of wrongful convictions and places a human face on it…A litany of appalling tales of error, incompetence, and downright corruption culminating in tainted convictions…Actual Innocence will raise the consciousness—and, one hopes, appeal to the conscience—of all who read it. That is hardly a minor achievement.”

  — New York Law Journal

• “Actual Innocence should be required reading for everyone involved in our justice system.”

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• “A powerful and illuminating look into the obscene quagmire of American criminal prosecutions, DNA has at last provided the key to the jailhouse door for a veritable host of innocent victims of this system. The book is a great service to justice.”

  — Arthur Miller

• “Chilling and enlightening.”

  — Associated Press

• “A riveting and disturbing exposé of recent revelations in wrongful convictions…A bona fide (if unorthodox) page-turner…An efficient, fiery treatise which forces the reader to consider ominously persistent inequities within the contemporary justice system.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “An indictment of a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys, and sloppy investigators.”

  — Salt Lake Tribune

• “There’s enough human drama here to keep a network series going for years…What’s really unique and precious—even invaluable—about this book is the way that it uses the undeniable evidence of individual innocence to provide not just a searing indictment of a system gone horribly wrong, but a thorough diagnosis of symptoms and causes with the commonsense remedies as well…Actual Innocence will thrill you, anger you, inform you, and yes, even motivate you to do something, before you or someone you love becomes a victim of a system that is itself all too often criminal in the ‘justice’ it dispenses.”

  — Denver Post

• “The book does make many positive suggestions to help alleviate what is deemed a national scandal…Well-written.”

  — Tampa Tribune