Loved it. Fiction, but sadly could just as well be non-fiction. As the work of the Innocence Project has demonstrated over the years there are likely more people behind bars innocent of the crimes they were convicted of having committed than we might like to admit. How many have been put to death?
The gist of Grisham's novel is this: In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of Donté Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he's guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm's legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man's attorney that Boyette's story needs to be taken seriously.
You might think about the death penalty differently after your finish.
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