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From Death Row to Freedom - The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case (Paperback)
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From Death Row to Freedom - The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case (Paperback)
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An insider's account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to
overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider's
account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black
men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two
white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and
sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and
Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the
appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the
endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice.
Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based
entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged
"eye witness" through prolonged, violent interrogations and how
local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to
the real killer, a white man well-known to the Port St. Joe police.
The book follows the case's tortuous route through the Florida
courts to the defendants' eventual exoneration in 1975 by the
Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a
thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at
the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s.
Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American
history that must be remembered, along with other similar
incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward
racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible
by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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