The Chamber

Hardcover, 486 pages

English language

Published June 22, 1994 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-42472-1
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OCLC Number:
812688075

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In 1967 in Greenville, Mississippi, known Klan member Sam Cayhall is accused of bombing the law offices of Jewish civil rights activist Marvin Kramer, killing Kramer's two sons. Cayhall's first trial, with an all-white jury and a Klan rally outside the courthouse, ends in a hung jury, the retrial six months later has the same outcome.

Twelve years later an ambitious district attorney in Greenville reopens the case. Much has changed since 1967, and this time, with a jury of eight whites and four blacks, Cahyhall is convicted. He is transferred to the state penitentiary at Parchman to await execution on death row.

In 1990, in the huge Chicago law firm of Kravitz & Bane, a young lawyer name Adam Hall asks to work on the Cayhall case, which the firm has handled on a pro bono basis for years. But the case is all but lost and time is …

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Subjects

  • Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction.
  • Bombings -- Mississippi -- Greenville -- Fiction.
  • Death row inmates -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
  • Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
  • Greenville (Miss.) -- Fiction.