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From Death Row to Freedom

  • Format
  • Bog, hardback
  • Engelsk
  • 420 sider

Beskrivelse

An insider's account of a wrongful

conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era



This

book is an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee,

two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two

white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced

to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10

years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal

perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and

obstructed justice.



Hubbart

discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged "eye witness" through

prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected

later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well-known to the Port

St. Joe police. The book follows

the case's tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants'

eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet.



From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough

chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police

during the civil rights era of the

1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American

history that must be remembered, along

with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today.



Publication

of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American

Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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