Smoke but No Fire - Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (Henry Jessica S.)(Paperback / softback)

2020 Foreword Indies Finalist in Political and Social Sciences The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction--one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened. Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions.The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is
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