LEADER 04253nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910450170503321 005 20210618014023.0 010 $a0-8147-2279-2 010 $a0-8147-2244-X 010 $a1-4175-8820-9 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814722794 035 $a(CKB)1000000000031440 035 $a(EBL)865373 035 $a(OCoLC)784884439 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000151989 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170456 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151989 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322319 035 $a(PQKB)10155454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865373 035 $a(OCoLC)58844985 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10898 035 $a(DE-B1597)548053 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814722794 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865373 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10078479 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000031440 100 $a20021218d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn expendable man$b[electronic resource] $ethe near-execution of Earl Washington, Jr. /$fMargaret Edds 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-2239-3 311 0 $a0-8147-2222-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tTimeline --$t1. Countdown --$t2. Death in Culpeper --$t3. A Piedmont Son --$t4. Arrest --$t5. Confessions --$t6. The Trial --$t7. Prisoner --$t8. Deadline --$t9. A Discovery --$t10. Appeals --$t11. Strategies --$t12. An Ending --$t13. Revival --$t14. Freedom Delayed --$t15. The Aftermath --$tNotes --$tRecommended Reading --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aHow is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons?9 1/2 of them on death row?for a murder he did not commit. This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at society's margins can be wrongfully convicted, and the extraordinary difficulty of correcting such a wrong once it occurs. Washington was eventually freed in February 2001 not because of the legal and judicial systems, but in spite of them. While DNA testing was central to his eventual pardon, such tests would never have occurred without an unusually talented and committed legal team and without a series of incidents that are best described as pure luck. Margaret Edds makes the chilling argument that some other ?expendable men? almost certainly have been less fortunate than Washington. This, she writes, is ?the secret, shameful underbelly? of America's retention of capital punishment. Such wrongful executions may not happen often, but anyone who doubts that innocent people have been executed in the United States should remember the remarkable series of events necessary to save Earl Washington Jr. from such a fate. 606 $aAfrican American prisoners$vBiography 606 $aDeath row inmates$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPeople with mental disabilities and crime$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration$zUnited States 606 $aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aDNA fingerprinting$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican American prisoners 615 0$aDeath row inmates 615 0$aPeople with mental disabilities and crime 615 0$aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration 615 0$aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aDNA fingerprinting 676 $a364.66/092 676 $aB 700 $aEdds$b Margaret$f1947-$01055127 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450170503321 996 $aAn expendable man$92488280 997 $aUNINA