The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington

Book Overview

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161039691X
• ISBN13: 9781610396912
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

It would have been better. ..

This book was purchased because it was under my favorite author John Grisham at that time. The authors try much too hard to convince the reader that the story is factual. It would have been a decent read had they just let us read it, and stop writing about why you should believe them.