
From Death Row to Freedom
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction
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 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...
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction
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 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...