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Book Review of The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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In the town of Ada OK, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle, but on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williams. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried and sentenced to death in a trial littered with lying witneses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man's already broken life and let a true killer go free..."