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Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
by John Hollway, Ronald M. Gauthier

Published: 2010-05-18
Hardcover : 496 pages
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The wrongful conviction of an innocent death row inmate and his fight for exoneration. In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three ...
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The wrongful conviction of an innocent death row inmate and his fight for exoneration. In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA's office. But who would fight for Thompson's innocence when he didn?t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt?

Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for Thompson's freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson's innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers, and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA's office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom?a journey that continues with his suit against Harry Connick, Sr. and the New Orleans DA's office to this day. 32 black-and-white photographs

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  "The Killing Time"by Samantha M. (see profile) 11/02/10

A fascinating real story with lots of juicy detail. Well-researched and written. Really makes you think about the how the justice system can be dysfuctional for people who have no education or support.... (read more)

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