The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Many of the same characters are involved in his story and mine.Q: You take on some pretty controversial and heated topics in your book--the death penalty, prisoner’s rights, DNA analysis, police conduct, and more--were any of your own beliefs challenged by this story and its outcome?A: None were challenged, but my eyes were open to the world of wrongful convictions. Ron had the talent, I did not. However, obviously, I love a good legal thriller, and the story of Ron Williamson has all the elements of a great suspenseful story.Q: Why this case?A: Ron Williamson and I are about the same age and we both grew up in small towns in the south. I have no idea how the book will be received in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, or any other town.Q: What do you hope your readers will take away from The Innocent Man?A: A better understanding of how innocent people can be convicted, and a greater concern for the need to reim

"More of a journal of events and too much detail" according to Michael Simpson. More of a journal of events and too much detail about sports. What I found devastating was the injustice of the legal system - just unbelievable in the way it operates, how it can be manipulated and how it doesn't protect the very citizens in the way its supposed to.I'm sure it is not peculiar to the US but I can say (f. Edward said No one can dislike a true story. Before I read the Author's note at the end this book, I have totally no idea that's a true story. Primarily it is a result of my ignorance before I brought the book, but as an ugly facts, it's also because such a story is so beyond our normal perception. Not only the life of Ron before his trial was so up and down, but . A true horror story of justice gone astray T.R. Padmanabhan A non-fiction by John Grisham tells the story of Ron Williamson, a budding baseball star from the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, who was framed by the Ada police for the murder of Debbie Carter. Convicted, sentenced to death and almost executed, Ron spent close to 20 years on death row until he, and his co-accused, Fritz,

The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. The investigation led nowhere. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grisham s first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence a book no American can afford to miss.". Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle