Infinite Hope

How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

Author: Anthony Graves
ISBN: 9780807062524

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house on fire to cover his tracks, deepening the heinousness of the crime and rocking the tiny community to its core. Authorities were eager to make an arrest. Five days later, Anthony Graves was in custody. Graves, then twenty-six years old and without an attorney, was certain that his innocence was obvious. He did not know the victims, he had no knowledge about the crime, and he had an airtight alibi with witnesses. There was also no physical evidence linking him to the scene. Yet Graves was indicted, convicted of capital murder, sentenced to death, and, over the course of twelve years on death row, given two execution dates. He was not freed f

Publisher: Beacon Press
Publish Date: 2018

Subjects: Law / Criminal Law / General, Social Science / Penology, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

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