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BOOK REVIEW

‘Anatomy of Injustice’ by Raymond Bonner

By Ethan Gilsdorf

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 28, 2012

For those seeking further ammunition for their battery of antideath-penalty arguments, look no further. “Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong’’ is Raymond Bonner’s accomplished and meticulously researched investigation into a murder case that, as the clumsy title suggests, was egregiously bungled. In 1982, in Greenwood, S.C., a 23-year-old man named Edward Lee Elmore was accused of killing of an elderly widow.

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