Audio only
Length11h 11m
About this audiobook
From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. After attending the University of Texas School of Law, Holt was eager to help the disenfranchised and voiceless—she herself had been a childhood victim of abuse. It required little scrutiny for Holt to discern that Elmore’s case reeked of injustice—plagued by incompetent court-appointed defense attorneys, a virulent prosecution, and evidence that was both misplaced and contaminated . It was the cause of a lifetime for the spirited, hardworking lawyer. Holt would spend more than a decade fighting on Elmore’s behalf. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holt’s battle to save Elmore’s life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. He reviews police work, evidence gathering, jury selection, work of court-appointed lawyers, latitude of judges, iniquities in the law, prison informants, and the appeals process. Throughout, the actions and motivations of both unlikely heroes and shameful villains in our justice system are vividly revealed. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation’s ongoing and increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (1.6K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph, LibraryThing
GenrePolitics and Government, True Crime
Length11 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byMark Bramhall
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 21, 2012
LanguageEnglish
RiggedMollie Hemingway12h 48m4.6 (4.2K)$23 · $0.00
SledgehammerDavid Friedman8h 21m4.7 (589)$26 · $0.00
Citizenship in a Republic (Annotated)Theodore Roosevelt2h 44m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
UnthinkableJamie Raskin15h 8m4.5 (9.3K)$8 · $0.00
My Fourth Time, We DrownedSally Hayden13h 59m4.6 (2.9K)$23 · $0.00
A Revolution of Common SenseScott Jennings9h 29m4.6 (528)$29 · $0.00
Statement From the Dock at the Rivonia TrialNelson Mandela2h 18m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
Lessons from the EdgeMarie Yovanovitch17h 11m4.5 (5.9K)$40 · $0.00
To Rescue the American SpiritBret Baier10h 12m4.5 (2.7K)$8 · $0.00
StonewalledSharyl Attkisson15h 19m4.5 (4.3K)$33 · $0.00
The World According to Orwell: 1984 & Animal FarmGeorge Orwell15h 42m4.6 (1.1K)$1 · $0.00
Basic EconomicsThomas Sowell18h 32m4.5 (29.3K)$28 · $0.00
To Rescue the RepublicBret Baier, Catherine Whitney11h 42m4.5 (8.6K)$29 · $0.00
Modern WarriorsPete Hegseth7h 10m4.5 (4.7K)$24 · $0.00
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (Annotated)Marcus Mosiah Garvey4h 42m4.5 (1.7K)$1.99 · $0.00
A Plague Upon Our HouseScott W. Atlas MD10h 37m4.5 (3.4K)$20 · $0.00
One Bright MoonAndrew Kwong12h 21m4.5 (813)$29 · $0.00
CredibleDeborah Tuerkheimer8h 5m4.6 (551)$26 · $0.00
Riding with EvilKen Croke, Dave Wedge9h 42m4.3 (3.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Two FBIsNicole Parker10h 8m4.4 (499)$29 · $0.00
I Catch KillersGary Jubelin15h 32m4.3 (6.6K)$33 · $0.00
The Redemption Of Bobby LoveBobby Love, Cheryl Love9h 13m4.4 (956)$29 · $0.00
The Life We ChoseMatt Birkbeck8h 57m4.4 (1K)$29 · $0.00
The Truth About AaronJonathan Hernandez5h 15m4.3 (2.5K)$24 · $0.00
No Ordinary BirdArtis Henderson6h 23m4.4 (597)$24 · $0.00
I'll Be Gone in the DarkMichelle McNamara10h 7m4.3 (302.5K)$29 · $0.00
Beyond the Body FarmBill Bass, Jon Jefferson6h 17m4.3 (10.2K)$24 · $0.00
The Killer Across the TableJohn E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker11h 7m4.3 (37.5K)$8 · $0.00
Inside the CartelMartin Suarez, Ian Frisch10h 50m4.4 (583)$29 · $0.00
White Hot HateDick Lehr12h 27m4.3 (1.4K)$29 · $0.00
Scarface and the UntouchableMax Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz18h 35m4.3 (2.4K)$40 · $0.00
Hack AttackNick Davies18h 7m4.3 (2.4K)$23 · $0.00
Russians Among UsGordon Corera12h 48m4.3 (4.1K)$33 · $0.00
Broken FaithMitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr12h 19m4.2 (5K)$27 · $0.00
Member of the FamilyDianne Lake, Deborah Herman12h 30m4.2 (11.8K)$33 · $0.00
FallJohn Preston11h 24m4.2 (6.3K)$29 · $0.00
Hell Put to ShameEarl Swift12h 23m4.3 (1.1K)$29 · $0.00
True IdentityPaul Joseph Fronczak, Alex Tresniowski8h 29m4.3 (817)$20 · $0.00
You may also like
Blind GoddessAnne Holt11h 32m3.5 (7.9K)$25
Time's WitnessMichael Malone22h 14m4.1 (1.1K)$30
The Big LieJames Grippando11h 22m3.9 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
LockdownSean Black8h 26m3.9 (5.5K) Only with Ultra
Illusion of JusticeJerome F. Buting10h 37m4.4 (1.1K)$29 · $0.00
ConvictionDenver Nicks, John Nicks6h 33m4.2 (284)$20
The Good Turn: A Cormac Reilly novelDervla McTiernan10h 48m4.3 (27.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Unarmed TruthJohn Dodson8h 55m4.4 (369)$20 · $0.00
Maximum ImpactJean Heller19h 34m4.5 (532)$30
Rough JusticeLisa Scottoline11h 32m3.9 (10.9K)$29 · $0.00
The Stranger Behind YouCarol Goodman11h 10m3.8 (5.6K)$8 · $0.00
OverboardSara Paretsky14h 41m4.1 (9K)$33 · $0.00
BoundlessNick Kostov, Sean McLain9h 17m4.5 (1.1K)$29 · $0.00
Rounding the MarkAndrea Camilleri5h 56m4.2 (10K)$14
Bottle of LiesKatherine Eban14h 25m4.4 (12K)$33 · $0.00
Mykonos after MidnightJeffrey Siger7h 49m4.0 (414)$20
The Catiline ConspiracySallust3h 17m4.0 (4.9K)$1 · $0.00
The Night AgentMatthew Quirk10h 47m4.2 (16.8K)$29 · $0.00
StonewalledSharyl Attkisson15h 19m4.5 (4.3K)$33 · $0.00
Public TrustA. W. Gray13h 12m3.9 (31)$23