Bloodsworth
The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence
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Narrated by:
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Jack Garrett
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By:
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Tim Junkin
About this listen
Charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. Maintaining his innocence, he read everything on criminal law available in the prison library and persuaded a new lawyer to petition for the then-innovative DNA testing. After nine years in one of the harshest prisons in America, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence. He was pardoned by the governor of Maryland and has gone on to become a tireless spokesman against capital punishment. Bloodsworth's story speaks for 159 others who were wrongly convicted and have since been released and for the thousands still in prison waiting for DNA testing.
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- @oneoflokis
- 03-09-24
Great true story!
This is a very important (and involving) true story and book: showing hoe the legal system definitely is not "perfect": and that wrongful convictions are a very good reason why the death penalty should be abolished in the USA. (And everywhere else that still uses it.)
It also underlines how DNA evidence has so profoundly changed things: and it has thrown a lifeline to the wrongfully convicted.
Actually. this book should be made into a movie!
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- Shaun
- 11-05-21
The death penalty sucks
This book was well narrated and kept me listening to it all in two sittings.
a very interesting book and reminds me why I think the death penalty should be removed. disgusting that so many people are wrongly imprisoned.
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- Mandy Dockery
- 21-11-18
In my opinion
Great work. Has changed my mind about the death penalty completely. Thank you and Gods Bless
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