Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593420089ISBN-10:059342008XUPC:9780593420089Book Category:Law, Political Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Criminal Law, Public Policy, African American & BlackBook Topic:SentencingSize:9.26 x 6.33 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SCEQ49PAYX
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young--a crime he didn't commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was "an awful mistake." The Texas legal system...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593420089ISBN-10:059342008XUPC:9780593420089Book Category:Law, Political Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Criminal Law, Public Policy, African American & BlackBook Topic:SentencingSize:9.26 x 6.33 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SCEQ49PAYX
Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic and formerly of National Public Radio. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Fingerprints of God and Life Reimagined, and her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and The Christian Science Monitor. She has received the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science and...
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