Pre-Owned Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul Paperback - USED

Summer 1992, Somerville, Texas: A family is brutally murdered and their house set on fire by the perpetrator to cover his tracks. Five days later, Anthony Graves, then twenty-six years old, was in custody. Young, naive, and without an attorney Graves was certain that his innocence was obvious. Yet, despite his airtight alibi and a lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime, Graves was indicted, convicted of capital murder, and sentenced to death. He was not treed for eighteen years, two months, four days. Through years of suffering the whims of rogue prosecutors, vote-hungry district attorneys, and Texas State Rangers who played by their own rules, Graves was exposed to the dire realities of being poor and black in the criminal justice system. From behind bars, he saw fellow inmates taken away to their deaths and he watched his sons mature into men. To maintain his dignity and sanity Graves wrote letters pleading his case to anyone he thought would listen, eventually attracting the attention of a savvy legal team that overcame setback after setback to chisel away at the state's faulty case against him and win his exoneration. Now, in this searing firsthand account, Graves recounts his ultimate fight from freedom from inside a prison cell. It is as haunting as it is poignant, and as shameful to our legal system as it is inspiring to those it betrays. Book jacket. Contributor: Anthony Graves