Today, more than eleven years after becoming a Death House resident, I am doing precisely what I began doing the very first day: waiting for a remote, faceless group of judges to decide what may be my final appeal.
Three years after Edgar Smith thus concluded his book Brief Against Death, his wait was over: last week a federal judge, considering the last of a score of legal moves, set aside his murder conviction. At 37, Smith—dropped-out genius, jailhouse lawyer, author, and the man currently living under a death sentence longer than any other American —finally won a new trial. His nearly...
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