{"product_id":"9780060574659","title":"Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit","description":"A brilliant and unprecedented work, \u003ci\u003eChasing Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is the riveting chronicle of 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 twenty-two harrowing years. Kerry Max Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed: This is his unbelievable story and the only fi rsthand account of its kind.     \u003cp\u003eWrongfully convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades on death row, 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.\" As scores of men around him were executed, Cook relentlessly battled a legal system that wanted him dead; meanwhile he fought daily to survive amid unspeakable conditions and routine assaults. 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.     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd finally in the spring of 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence was tested and it linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted. Today, Cook is a free man and the proud father of a young son.     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shocking look inside death row, a legal thriller, and an inspirational story of one man's ultimately triumphant fight against extreme adversity, \u003ci\u003eChasing Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark work, written with the powerful authenticity of Cook's own hand. It will forever unsettle our view of the American justice system.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021182091504,"sku":"9780060574659","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060574659_p0.jpg?v=1763765936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060574659","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}