On February 19, 2002, John William Byrd, Jr. was executed in Ohio's Lucasville death house for a crime that he insisted he did
not commit. There was no physical evidence connecting Byrd to the murder, and the only direct evidence against him was the word
of a notorious jailhouse snitch, himself a violent felon. Bob Fitrakis, award-winning investigative reporter closely followed
the case to the end. This book includes his reports on the Byrd case along with other dispatches from the inner recesses of the
prison-industrial complex.
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