anyone read The Confession, by John Grisham?


was my first Grisham book and i liked it a lot.


story is about a black guy on death row, in texas.

he confessed to a murder, but said it was under duress.

the only 'witness' recanted.


a day or two before he gets the needle the real murderer turns up, and a desperate race to get in front of a judge for a stay of execution begins.

the state governor denies clemency and being a politician he is a prick with two shitty 'advisers'.

this governor is planning to run for president, and obstructs the last ditch submission of the new witness testimony. (he has record number of execution for his time in office)


the innocent guy does get killed (grisham must have sat in on a couple of 'cutions by the way he tells it) which makes the fallout all the worse for all the shit-cakes that stopped the truth getting out - prosecutor, detective, judge.....and the presidential hopeful Texas governor.


i though of this even when i heard of the man that was killed a while back for burning his wife and kids even though new evidence was produced, and how Perry must have been in Grishams mind for his character.

Grisham, an ex lawyer and clearly very much against the death penalty is fair in pointing out that the defense team will always be claiming new evidence right up until the execution, will try anything to delay it.


so, Troy might be fucked, but so is Perry if it goes like the book.


the prisoner is called Donte Drumm, and the real killer was
Travis Boyette.....an amalgam of Troy Davis????