While showing individuals fighting against the justice system, the show does not forget the suffering and trauma of the victims.
RON Williamson's tombstone is inscribed with the words "tough survivor". He was actually weak. He smoked and drank after his release and lived the same life of intemperance as before. But he did show unusual strength in one respect, no matter how bad the circumstances, even when he lost his mind, he always shouted his innocence.
He is a man with many faults, but never without friendship and love. Friendships came from fellow inmates, prison doctors, lawyers, friends in prison and even victim Debbie Carter's mother, Peggy. When he got out of prison, he called her and said he'd never met Debbie, and She believed him. Friendship is the result of his charm and generosity, and when he asks his sister for a living allowance, he asks for one for a fellow inmate.
Paige was extremely unstable after losing her daughter. More than four years later, she signed off on the police exhumation, which caused her to have a complete mental breakdown. She has since taken antidepressants. Paige often visits Debbie's grave to wipe the picture on the headstone, as she did her daughter's face when she was a child, and says she can hardly remember her daughter's voice. She wrote a letter to the real killer, Glenn Gore, asking him why he killed Debbie, and got no response.
Debbie's cousin Christy Shepard was seven years old when she was killed. It was the end of her childhood for Christy, and she understood the family was going through trouble. As she grew up and attended many trials with her family, she said, nothing could bring Paige back.
The experience opened her eyes to the problems of the criminal justice system. She is now a member of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission, working to reform the death penalty system and organizing a support group to help people who have been exonerated or affected by wrongful convictions.
Dennis Fritz had a major incident before RON went to prison, when his wife was murdered by a neighbor on Christmas Day 1975. For 12 years, he taught himself the law so as not to break down mentally. John Grisham credits him with the ingenuity that made it possible to be free of complaints by watching TV reports on DNA testing and sending them neatly to project Innocents.
Instead of living in resentment after his release, he often encouraged RON to cheer up and published his own book, in which Grisham said he "led a quiet, ordinary and affluent life in Kansas and, last year, became a grandfather".
His ordeal was not over. He was in a car accident in 2016 and showed signs of dementia, but he smiled so happily that his daughter Elizabeth, who is writing a book about the criminal justice system, said to be like her father and never give up hope.
The show spends the same amount of time exploring the case of Dennis Harraway, who led tommie Ward and Carl Fontenot to prison. Because no biological evidence was left at the crime scene, DNA testing could not save them, and the real killer may never be found. The day Tommy lost his freedom was October 18, 1984, and he is still in prison, having had his applications rejected three times because he insists he is innocent. Will the airing of the show prompt the court to reconsider his appeal?
John Grisham is a man of many things. He was a Mississippi State representative and a lawyer for nearly a decade, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. As Professor Linway puts it: "To call him a mystery novelist would be to overlook his legal background, his accurate analysis of the criminal law system, and his profound reflection on human nature." He's also an executive producer on the show and a board member of project Innocents. The Project for the Innocent, a nonprofit legal organization founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Shak at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law, has so far helped clear 362 people and found 158 perpetrators through DNA testing. Grisham said he met Barry Shak while writing innocent People and invited him to join the Innocent Project. To help the weak with their own actions and promote social progress is the social care of a lawyer and a writer.