Abstract
Since 1973, 123 innocent persons awaiting execution in 25 states have been exonerated and released from death row. A list of these individuals, in chronological order of exoneration, is available from the Death Penalty Information Center at < www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ >. Exoneree number 80 on this list is Ron Williamson, whose strange and tragic tale is told in John Grisham’s first nonfiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Doubleday, New York, 2006). (At a separate trial conducted a week before Williamson’s, a friend of his, Dennis Leon Fritz, another innocent person, was also erroneously convicted of the same murder as Williamson but received a life sentence rather than death. After almost 12 years in prison, Fritz, like Williamson, was exonerated by DNA and released.)
Repository Citation
Wilkes, Donald E. Jr., "Kafka (and Grisham) in Oklahoma" (2007). Popular Media. 118.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/118
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