Confession

Confession

In the book the Confession by John Grisham,   it is a book about the death penalty, mostly pressing issues in the State of Texas.   The book is about a young African-American football player in high school who is forced by the police who are white, to confess to a murder he did not commit.   He is then convicted and put on death row for nine years.   In the effort to save him throughout the book, they fail and he is killed in the end by the needle in the State of Texas.   He is exonerated, but it was too late he was already dead.   The story is a sad face to the reality of how things happen in the United States, how racism has full affect on how things play out.   This story takes place in a little hick town in Texas by the name of Slone.   It is separated black and white and that is how they feel it should be.   This African-American boy named Dante Drumm was accused of killing a rich white girl, who attended the same school and was a cheerleader.   The jury was all white, and the cops who interrogated him tortured him by keeping him in a room all night and making up ludicrous stories such as, they have his friend and he already confessed that he saw Dante abduct her and he saw him driving their family van. This was all fabricated by the police and was still admitted in court.   It’s amazing to see that such manipulation and power a police department can have over a little city.   They were going to do anything in their possible power to keep him in the police station until he confessed something, and that is exactly what happened, he wanted to leave so badly and feared for his life that he would say anything to make them leave him alone so he confessed, and that was the beginning to his nine year nightmare on death row.  
In the book, Grisham shows that there is wrongful death that can easily be prosecuted because of the way things are so corrupt.   These people, in this case an African American boy, normally don’t get good lawyers or cannot afford them.   They are not white...