Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit

Chronicles How A Smalltown Murder Became One Of The Worst Cases Of Prosecutorial Misconduct In American History, And Sent The Author, An Innocent Man, To Hell For 22 Harrowing Years--cook Is One Of The Longest-tenured Death-row Prisoners To Be Freed. Convicted Of Killing A Young Woman In Texas, Cook Was Sentenced To Death In 1978 And Served Two Decades In A Prison System So Notoriously Brutal And Violent That In 1980 A Federal Court Ruled That Serving Time In Texas's Jails Was Cruel And Unusual Punishment. When An Advocate And A Crusading Lawyer Joined His Struggle In The 1990s, A Series Of Retrials Was Forced. At Last, In November 1996, Texas's Highest Appeals Court Threw Out Cook's Conviction, Citing Overwhelming Evidence Of Police And Prosecutorial Misconduct. Finally In 1999 Long-overlooked Dna Evidence Linked Another Man To The Rape And Murder For Which Cook Had Been Convicted.--from Publisher Description.--source Other Than The Library Of Congress. Prologue: 1977 -- My Family -- Pretrial, 1977 And 1978 -- 1978 Trial -- Welcome To Death Row -- Through The Killing Fields -- Men I Could Trust -- The More Things Stay The Same: Pretrial, 1992 -- The 1992 Retrial -- Georgetown Rematch, 1994 -- Purgatory -- A November To Remember -- The Choice -- Living Life -- My Travels. Kerry Max Cook.