Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

464 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics race true crime challenging emotional informative medium-paced
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In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal sy...

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