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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed that another man is about to be executed for.
2) The chamber
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after the bombing of a Mississippi law office in which Marvin Kramer's two sons died, former Klan member Sam Cayhill, the accused killer, has nearly exhausted his death row appeals, until young lawyer Adam Hall takes the case.
Author
Language
English
Description
The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
4) Gone again
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learning that a man on death row who is days away from being executed may be innocent, Jack Swyteck races against time to discover the truth about the victim, the accused, and the victim's parents.
5) Final truth
Author
Series
FBI thrillers. Truth series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working with FBI Special Agent Mitch Peyton on the case of convicted rapist/murderer Edgar Barnes, true-crime writer Regan Landry and her partner turn up a number of irregularities that insure his release, but when North Carolina's Outer Banks are plagued by a series of brutal, sexual killings, Regan and Mitch confront the possibility that they have unleashed a monster.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Falling in love with a man on death row she believes was falsely accused, a young schoolteacher successfully campaigns for the man's release and becomes his wife, only to begin to wonder about his possible guilt in the aftermath of his release.
Author
Language
English
Description
Told through the women in his life--his mother, his sister-in-law, and the detective who brought him to justice--this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours.
8) Clemency
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As she prepares to execute another inmate, warden Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
10) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A world-renowned civil rights defense attorney works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Louisiana, Ginny Polk's job as a cook in a Louisiana prison, where she provides the last meals for death row prisoners, leads her into the secrets of her own past when she discovers information about the man who was executed for killing her father.
12) Native son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.
13) Life after death
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A West Memphis Three member's account of his eighteen-year death row incarceration discusses the justice system flaws that led to his conviction, the abuses he suffered in prison, and the trio's vindication in 2011.
15) Last words
Author
Series
Markus Novak novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.
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