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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his only nonfiction title as of 2020.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.
Ron Williamson. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to ...
In 2006, John Grisham brought Ada into the national spotlight in his nonfiction work The Innocent Man, relating a similar story in the convictions of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz for the murder of Debra Sue Carter. After 12 years on death row, DNA evidence proved the men's innocence and established the guilt of the prosecution's main witness.
CORRECTION (Jan. 22, 2024, 3:18 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when an Oklahoma appeals court upheld Glossip’s death sentence. It was last year, not earlier this year. It ...
By John Kruzel. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip's bid to challenge his conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire based ...
The scene of a vigil by a small group of anti-death penalty activists in Washington Square Park in New York City for Oklahoma death row prisoner Julius Jones on the day of his scheduled execution ...
The Innocent Man is an American true crime documentary television series based on John Grisham's 2006 book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. [1] [2] The six-episode first season debuted on Netflix on December 14, 2018. [3] Like Grisham's nonfiction book, the series follows two murder cases in Ada, Oklahoma, between 1982 ...
Oklahoma death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith speaks during his clemency hearing March 6. Smith faces execution for two 2002 murders. He claims he is innocent even though he confessed to police.