Reading List: Books on the Subject of Wrongful Conviction

Adams, Randall with William Hoffer and Marilyn Mona Hoffer. Adams vs. Texas: The True Story Made Famous by the Highly Acclaimed Film The Thin Blue Line, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

Blakeslee, Nate. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, New York, PublicAffairs, 2005.

Connery, Donald S. Convicting the Innocent: The Story of a Murder, a False Confession, and the Struggle to Free a ‘Wrong Man’, Cambridge: Brookline Books, 1996.

Cotton, Ronald and Jennifer Thompson-Cannino with Erin Torneo. Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009.

Dow, David. Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America’s Death Row, Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.

Edds, Margaret. An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington Jr., New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Fritz, Dennis. Journey Towards Justice, Santa Ana: Seven Locks Press, 2006.

Grisham, John. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Johnson, Calvin. Exit to Freedom, Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Junkin, Tim. Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA, Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2004.

Lueders, Bill. Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman’s Harrowing Quest for Justice, Madison: Terrace Books, 2006.

Mayer, Robert. The Dreams of Ada, New York: Broadway Books, 1987.

Protess, David and Rob Warden. A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men, New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Scheck, Barry, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer. Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right,
New York: New American Library, 2000.

Simon, Taryn. The Innocents, New York: Umbrage Editions, 2003.

Turow, Scott. Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Vollen, Lola and Dave Eggers. Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2005.