But what made possible his freedom was the struggle of ordinary people of all races against a grotesquely unfair system.
But the adulation and attention Emin still gets for her meagre new work compared to Lucas seems grotesquely unfair.
These attacks were grotesquely unfair - but electoral politics is not fair.
Mr. Taylor is on record as having concluded, after a review of court transcripts, that the Abu-Jamal trial was "grotesquely unfair."
Come now - that's grotesquely unfair.
"The trial was grotesquely unfair and included fabricated evidence," contends Stuart Taylor, the legal affairs columnist for The National Journal.
That was grotesquely unfair to those on the waiting lists.
"This is grotesquely unfair, Captain!"
Michael Gove is poised to scrap competition between examination boards because of "grotesquely unfair" culture.
A law professor argues cogently that the Federal confirmation process has become a monster, grotesquely unfair to nominees of both right and left.