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Six months after Death Wish, Paul Benjamin has moved from New York City to Chicago after the death of his catatonic daughter, the result of the brutal attack that transformed him into a vigilante. The only thing that distracts him from his renewed vendetta against crime is a beautiful woman, whom he starts dating.
His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to death. Both were released 11 years later when DNA evidence proved their innocence. Their story became the subject of bestselling author John Grisham 's first nonfiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2006), and the ...
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his first nonfiction title. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story is a 1954 memoir that is the first of four books written on death row by convicted robber, rapist and kidnapper Caryl Chessman (27 May 1921 – 2 May 1960).
The case highlights an inherent risk of capital punishment: putting an innocent person to death. At least 200 people sentenced to die since 1973 were later exonerated, including 18 in Texas ...
Grisham had researched and written a book about a real-life case of an innocent person wrongfully sentenced to death (The Innocent Man) and many details of Donte's police investigation and trial, as well as the psychological effects of his years on Death Row, are clearly inspired by that case. The actual case was in Oklahoma, and proof of ...
The defendant does not want commutation,” wrote Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in 2004 for killing a federal inmate while serving a life sentence for another murder years earlier.
Callie reveals that the victims were jurors who voted against sentencing Padgitt to death. A third juror - who also opposed a death sentence - narrowly escapes a bomb sent through the mail. The resulting public uproar forces the authorities' hands, and a warrant is issued for Padgitt's arrest. Against expectations, Padgitt surrenders to police.