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Chargement... The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South (2018)par Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Managed to finish this - barely. ( ) Without a doubt, there is much racial prejudice ingrained within the judicial system, especially in Mississippi. That is what most of this book is about. From reading the jacket blurb I assumed the book was about the murders of the two girls; but in reality, only about 3 chapters were dedicated to that. The remainder of the book was very wide in its scope, even going back to the 1950's lynchings in not only Mississippi, but throughout the South. There were so many cases discussed that I could not keep track of them and sometimes when they switched cases mid-chapter I missed it and was going....huh? I wish the book was more focused on just the two cases of the young girls. I don't think the reader will find too much "new" here except perhaps the specifics of the two girls murdered in 1990 and 1993 and perhaps Emmett Till (if you don't know about him already). 416 pages As someone who was raised Catholic and taught by nuns, my abiding problem is always figuring out how not to be overwhelmed by shame and guilt. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist explores what happens when you've got a legal system run by people who are seemingly incapable of feeling either emotion. Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington analyse the wrongful murder convictions of two Black men in a small Mississippi town in the early 1990s. Their respective convictions, and the fact that they spent long years behind bars for murders that they didn't commit, is the result of racism, the good ol' boy network, and forensic analysis that was either incompetently carried out, based on junk science, or both. (And much more forensic science is bunk than the average viewer of CSI, etc., might think.) This is not another prurient installment in the true crime genre. It is, instead, a fairly meticulous indictment of wilful systemic injustice. In other words: Americans, your court system is fucked. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system â?? a relic of the Jim Crow era â?? failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial i Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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