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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of an inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed that another man is about to be executed for.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A "young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch"--
"1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel...
Author
Series
Green Mile volume 1-6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"May Seymour graduated from college with the world at her feet and no idea what to do with it. A mission trip to Rwanda brought her a sense of purpose in loving others. So when the genocide began she chose to remain in the village, which was subsequently slaughtered. Only May survived. May journeyed to heal on the farm of Claudius Borne, a sweet, innocent old man who understood plants and animals far better than people. Years later, having not stepped...
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker, newly hired to a FBI special task force, takes an interest in convicted murderer Melvin Mars case when he discovers the eerie similarities to his own life.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After spending 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence, thrusting him back into a world he no longer knows. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his return will reignite the fears of a small town and threaten to shatter his family's fragile peace. Daniel's alleged crime divided a community. His freedom could tear it in half.
8) Gone again
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 12
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since 'The Pardon,' in a case that is as twisty as it is shocking. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"John Grisham had better look to his laurels--there's a new writer of legal thrillers in town." Richard A. Lupoff, author of The Classic Car Killer Howard Henley is not a killer. That seems obvious to lawyer Janet Moodie when she's called in to work his appeal. Her new client was convicted of arranging the shooting of a drug dealer, but the man who pulled the trigger has always said Henley had nothing to do with it. So why is Henley the one on death...
10) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
11) The enchanted
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
13) The last suppers
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ginny Polk works as a prison cook and also prepares the last meals of those sentenced to execution. When she stumbles upon information about the man executed for killing her father, it leads to a series of dark and painful revelations.
14) Two lost boys
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Janet Moodie has spent years as a death row appeals attorney. Overworked and recently widowed, she's had her fill of hopeless cases, and is determined that this will be her last. Her client is Marion 'Andy' Hardy, convicted along with his brother Emory of the rape and murder of two women. But Emory received a life sentence while Andy got the death penalty, labeled the ringleader despite his low IQ and Emory's dominant personality. Convinced that Andy's...
Series
Prison break volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Most men would do anything to get out of jail, but Michael Scofield will do anything to get in. His brother has been sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit, and the only way to save him is from the inside out.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Holden returns to his small hometown in Georgia after serving nineteen years on death row. Having spent his entire adult life waiting to die, Daniel must now try to find a way to cope with his past and forge a "normal" life with a future before him. Season three picks up on the very afternoon of Daniel's plea deal. Will the deal be accepted? Will Daniel be forced to leave town?
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, Esau Till sits on death row, writing his life story. But his memoir is his one last chance to protect his brother. As the state gets ready to take his life, Esau plots going all-in on the last hand he will ever play.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything-whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has...
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and...
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