Infinite hope : how wrongful conviction, solitary confinement, and 12 years on death row failed to kill my soul / Anthony Graves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graves, Anthony, 1965- author.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graves, Anthony, 1965---Trials, litigation, etc.

Graves, Anthony.

Graves, Anthony, 1965-.

Death row inmates--Texas--Biography.

Death row inmates.

Trials (Murder)--Texas.

Trials (Murder).

Judicial error--Texas.

Judicial error.

Texas.

Trials (Murder)-Texas.

Local Subjects:

Trials (Murder)-Texas.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]

Summary:

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 10 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.

Contents:

The arrest

Trial,conviction, and sentencing

Surviving Death Row

Exoneration and activism.

Notes:

"Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years on death row and 12 years in solitary confinement, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. Infinite Hope is an argument against the death penalty through one man's personal story. It is about a man enduring a life on death row year after year, when he knows that he is one hundred percent innocent and that his exoneration is unlikely. Anthony Graves' unbelievable saga started in 1992 when, at 26 years old, he was arrested for killing six people in Somerville, Texas. Despite his air-tight alibi, his unwavering insistence that he had no knowledge of the crime, and a lack of physical evidence linking him to the scene, Graves was arrested, charged with capital murder, and eventually sentenced to death. He spent nearly two decades defending his innocence from behind bars. With the help of a hard-charging journalist, Graves' story of injustice and the astounding malfeasance he encountered at every turn was published in Texas Monthly. In 2011, eighteen years after his nightmare began, Graves was finally exonerated. The prosecutor in his case was later disbarred. Poignant and skillfully wrought, Graves writes about fighting for his dignity, trying to maintain his sanity, the excruciating reality of being innocent behind bars, and how he endured one setback after another as he and his lawyers chipped away at the state's case against him. Infinite Hope exposes an extreme version of when the judicial system is wrong and, as Graves describes it, "what people go through when they're treated as disposable.""--Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Graves, Anthony, 1965- Infinite hope.

ISBN:

9780807062524

0807062529

OCLC:

990114746

Publisher Number:

99975150200