From Death Row to Freedom – The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts–Lee Ca…
From Death Row to FreedomThe Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case\nAuthor(s): Phillip A. Hubbart\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813080130, 978-0813080130\nSynopsis\nAn insiders account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era\n\nThis book is an insiders 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.\n\nHubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an al.
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