A new nov­el by acclaimed author John Grisham, enti­tled ​“The Confession,” tells the sto­ry of Donte Drumm, an inno­cent man who was con­vict­ed of mur­der and sen­tenced to death in Texas. The book begins as the exe­cu­tion of Drumm is only four days away and anoth­er man con­fess­es to the crime to a min­is­ter. Although a work of fic­tion, Grisham’s work offers a cri­tique of our crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem and of the death penal­ty in par­tic­u­lar. USA Today​’s review of the book notes, ​“Readers who share [Grisham’s] views as well as those sit­ting on the fence will find much to love and lament in the trag­ic sto­ry of Donté Drumm.”

(J. Grisham, ​“The Confession,” Doubleday 2010; C. Memmott, ​“Grisham pros­e­cutes the death penal­ty in ​‘The Confession’,” USA Today, October 26, 2010). See Books and Innocence.

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