Beyond innocence : the life sentence of Darryl Hunt
(2022)
By:
Zerwick, Phoebe
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
347.7312/ZERWICK,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802159373, 0802159370 :, 0802159370, 9780802159373
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A true story of race, wrongful conviction, and an American reckoning still to come."--Tp
In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death every ex-prisoner experiences attempting to restart their lives