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Raymond Bonner, Anatomy of Injustice
03/12/2012 7:30 pm
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Raymond Bonner will discuss Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong, a gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Bonner’s book is a vital contribution to our nation’s ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.
“Masterful . . . Eloquent, important, and accessible . . . The book of the century about the death penalty.” --Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic
“A lucid, page-turning account . . . Elmore’s defense winds through nearly three decades of legal maneuverings as suspenseful as the investigation of the mysterious crime itself."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review
UPDATE:
After 30 years in prison, Edward Lee Elmore (the subject of Anatomy of Injustice) was released from prison on March 2nd.
In the courtroom was former New York Times reporter Raymond Bonner,
who has followed the case for more than a decade and recently wrote a
book about it. He said police were anxious to make an arrest to allay a
community's fears that a rapist and murderer was among them and the
little evidence that links Elmore to the crime was planted.
"Don't dare call it justice," he said after the hearing. "A man served 30 years for a crime he did not commit."
