John Grisham`s latest book takes the best-selling courtroom novelist into the realm of non-fiction with the story of an innocent man on Oklahoma`s death row.
‘The Innocent Man,’ which goes on sale Tuesday, chronicles the ordeal of Ron Williamson, who spent 11 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn`t commit.
Grisham described Williamson to USA Today as a small-town kid who had a knack for penny-ante trouble despite being drafted by the Oakland A`s in 1971. His baseball career was snuffed out by alcohol and injuries, and he was arrested in 1982 for the death of a cocktail waitress in the town of Ada.
Grisham`s book details poor and sometimes vindictive police work that railroaded Williamson. He was freed with the help of DNA testing just five days before his scheduled execution, but died in 2004.
Grisham told the newspaper, ‘Every time there`s an exoneration and people walk out of prison after 15 years, people say, `How could this happen?` Well, I want to show people how it can happen.’
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