Life After Murder Five Men in Search of Redemption

by Mullane, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9781610390293
• ISBN10: 1610390296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-26
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? Who do they really become after they have served decades in prison? What does it take for a killer to be accepted back into society? What is the chance that he will kill again? Award-winning journalist Nancy Mullane found herself facing these questions when she accepted an assignment to report on the exploding costs of incarceration. But the men she met behind the walls astonished her with their remorse, introspection, determination, and unshakable hope for freedom and forgiveness. Life After Murderis an intimately reported, utterly compelling story of five convicted murderers sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, who discover after decades in prison that their second chance, if it comes at all, is also the challenge of a lifetime. It follows their struggle for redemption, their legal battles to make good on the state's promise of parole, and the lives they found after so many years inside.

Author Biography

Nancy Mullane is Executive Producer of the national podcast, Life of the Law, and develops, reports, and produces feature stories for Public Radio International's This American Life, National Public Radio, and the NPR affiliate KALW News-Crosscurrents in San Francisco. She is a member of the Society for Professional Journalists, the Association of Independents in Radio, and the International Women's Media Foundation. In 2009, she was awarded a Soros Justice Media Fellowship, and in 2011, Nancy was the recipient of a National Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2013 her book, Life After Murder was honored with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Book Award.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. ix
Face To Face	p. 1
Results	p. 9
Time And Space	p. 21
Worlds Apart	p. 37
Richie's Story The Good Son	p. 41
Eddie's Story Midnight Run To Hell	p. 69
Blind Date	p. 101
150 Days	p. 113
Don's Story Seconds	p. 129
Reversals	p. 139
Jesse's Story Hair Trigger	p. 153
Beautiful	p. 169
Phillip's Story Crazy Hot Day	p. 181
Sidewalks	p. 199
Shifting Fortunes	p. 205
One Screw-Up	p. 231
Nimnh (Not In My Neighborhood)	p. 251
Bittersweet	p. 257
Money	p. 285
Disneyland	p. 317
Digging Deep	p. 321
Epilogue Thanksgiving	p. 337
Acknowledgments	p. 347
A Note on Sources	p. 353
Index	p. 355
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