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作者简介
JOHN GRISHAM is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi
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For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.
Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and confess.
But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one
left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and
prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He
just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that
the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their
case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the
trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved
when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and
prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an
innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be
executed.
Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas
city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high
school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be
found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested
and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him
off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in
Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his
execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the
first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and
confess.
But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and
politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
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