Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Much of the book focuses on Thurgood Marshall’s cases in the south where black men faced murder charges and capital punishment in cases where there was little or no evidence. There was no justice in these cases and Marshall led a team trying to find cases that could be appealed — which was the only way any resemblance to justice could be obtained. Justice in these cases was not being found not guilty. It was often just being able to get a death penalty reduced to life imprisonment.
This book won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Of the several Pulitzer Prize winner I’ve read, “Devil in the Grove” touched me the deepest.