Review – The Deprived by Steffen Hou is an excellent study of innocent people sentenced to death row. It tells of their struggles to find someone to believe them and fight for their freedom, as well as the effects upon their family.
The Deprived: Innocent on Death Row by Steffen Hou
Genres: True Crime, Criminal Biographies, Serial Killers,
My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
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Synopsis from Goodreads:
‘The Deprived: Innocent On Death Row’ tells the dramatic stories of innocent Americans sentenced to death, and investigates the murder and abduction cases that led to their wrongful convictions.
The book gives a unique and heartbreaking insight to life on death row, and describes how ordinary mothers and fathers fight for their lives, even though they never committed any crime.
Buckle up as the book takes you on a devastating journey through the US Justice System to prove how police misconduct, friends’ evil, and even a 12-year-old boy’s false testimony can easily put innocent people on death row.
Read the shocking stories:
- Nick Yarris describes how serial killer Ted Bundy chased him in prison and how he managed to escape from death row to become America’s most wanted.
- Sunny Jacobs explains what it is like to be a woman on death row and how her husband had fire coming out of his head when he was executed just to be proven innocent shortly after.
- Marietta Jaeger tells how her seven-year-old daughter was abducted and killed, but also why she forgave her daughter’s serial killer and fought for him not to get the death penalty.
- Randy Gardner admits he helped his brother escape from prison and that the brother committed murder while on the run.
- Damon Thibodeaux relives how his own family accused him of being a cold-blooded child killer when he was sentenced to death for the homicide of a 16-year-old girl, he never did any harm.
- Derrick Jamison describes how he had 90 minutes to live, but was proven innocent before entering the execution chamber.
These and other stories that also reveal whether it is possible to restore life after being wrongfully incarcerated for decades or if freedom as an exoneree is even harder than being on death row.
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Review – The Deprived by Steffen Hou
E-Book Details:
- File Size: 2660 KB
- Print Length: 220 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 154395507X
- Publisher: Hou Media; 1 edition (March 16, 2019)
- Publication Date: March 16, 2019
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B07PQ45WBT
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Screen Reader: Supported
- Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Review – The Deprived by Steffen Hou
Paperback Details:
- Paperback: 218 pages
- Publisher: BookBaby (April 3, 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 154395507X
- ISBN-13: 978-1543955071
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces
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My review – The Deprived by Steffen Hou
What an interesting study of innocent people convicted and sent to death row. The author presents the case studies and his thoughts in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. The book refutes many myths regarding the death penalty.
The book chronicles not only the lives of those on death row and the exonerated but also the effects on the families of the accused. Even the victim’s family gets to present their thoughts and emotions.
This fairly short book contains so much useful information for further study and debate, it should be required reading for young and old alike.
Favorite quote: “If it’s proven a person has been wrongfully put in prison, authorities can go and get him out of his cell. “But they can never go and get him out of the grave,”
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That sounds like a fascinating book. Thank you for vringing it to my attention with this review.
You are most welcome. It sure is a “thinking” book.
This sounds like a good companion book for “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” by Bryan Stevenson–which I highly recommend.
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I understand there’s a new movie out, as well: “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, a new documentary from HBO and Kunhardt Films, chronicles the ongoing efforts of the Equal Justice Initiative, founded by Stevenson, to bring impartiality and equality to the American criminal justice system.”
I will check that one out…when I get caught up on my TBR list! Lol