The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- ISBN-10
- 0345532015
- ISBN-13
- 9780345532015
- Series
- The Innocent Man
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 435
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company
- Author
- John Grisham
Description
Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a twenty-one-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown.
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- 2012-03-27
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- 2010-04-21
- 411 pages
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