cagebox 's review for:

The Innocent Man by John Grisham

3.0

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3.5 stars. I did not read the synopsis on this book before I started reading it, so I was about 100 pages in when I realized this was a true story and not a traditional Grisham thriller. I like his fiction better, but this is an interesting story on how murder investigations and death penalty trials were handled very poorly in Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s. The book sheds light on flaws in the justice system at the time, and though it didn't shed my views on the death penalty, it certainly brings a strong argument to the table that evidence should be overwhelming and backed by DNA if the penalty is ever handed down.