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A SHANNON RAVENEL BOOK

Published by
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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a division of
Workman Publishing
225 Varick Street
New York, New York 10014

For my children

© 2004 by Tim Junkin and Kirk Bloodsworth. All rights reserved.

Photograph on page 279 © 1998,
The Washington Post
. Photograph by Mary Lou Foy. Reprinted with permission.

This is a true story. At the request of Kirk Bloodsworth, and for both privacy and security reasons, the names of a number of individuals with minor roles in the story have been changed.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for a previous edition of this work.

E-book ISBN 978-1-56512-710-4

Praise for
Bloodsworth

“Kirk Bloodsworth's name is more likely to be retained by history than most of the people you will read about in today's newspaper. The first former death row inmate exonerated by DNA, Bloodsworth and his story are not only memorable, but gripping and revelatory as well. More than anything,
Bloodsworth
is a tale of courage and determination in the face of the law's worst nightmare—the execution of an innocent man.”

—S
COTT
T
UROW
, author of
Presumed Innocent

“
Bloodsworth
may well be the most incredible and important true story ever written about a death row convict's daily battle for survival, both in the cell block and in the courtrooms. . . . Hollywood should fight for this one.”

—J
OSEPH
W
AMBAUGH
, author of
The Blooding

“This book does many things exceedingly well, among them making legal complexities clear and the frustrations of battling the system palpable.”

—S
ISTER
H
ELEN
P
REJEAN
, author of
Dead Man Walking

“
Bloodsworth
is a powerful indictment of a death penalty system that is fundamentally broken. Kirk Bloodsworth is as compelling and decent to the core as any fictional character, but his story is shockingly real.”

—S
ENATOR
P
ATRICK
L
EAHY

“A cautionary tale that grabs the attention and holds it.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

“A harrowing ‘fly on the wall' look at an inmate struggling to survive on death row. Highly recommended.”

—
Library Journal
, starred review

“Should disturb any fair-minded reader on either side of the capital punishment debate.”

—
Publishers Weekly

“[A] gripping and confounding true-crime esposé.”

—
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Tried and convicted for a sadistic murder he did not commit and then sentenced to death, Bloodsworth is an American Josef K.”

—
Washington Post Book World

“A chillingly persuasive argument against the death penalty.”

—
St. Paul Pioneer Press

“The wrongful conviction problem is difficult to avoid, but not unsolvable, as this harrowing story shows.”

—
The Christian Science Monitor

“Explains everything that went wrong to place an innocent man on death row for a crime he knew nothing about.”

—
The Sunday Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News

“Junkin . . . strives for objectivity and factuality, particularly when revealing how right-minded people—police officers or prosecutors, judges or jurors—can make spectacularly wrong decisions that lead to the imprisonment and even the death of innocents.”

—
The Miami Herald

“It is also a story about authorities waiting 10 more years before putting the DNA evidence from the crime scene into the FBI's national genetic database.”