In the major league draft of 1971, the first
player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron
Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said
goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his
dreams of big league glory.
Six years later he was
back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits—
drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of
mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his
mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.
In
1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra
Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the
police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were
never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend
Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and
charged with capital murder.
With no physical
evidence,
the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the
testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz
was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson
was sent to death row.
If you believe that in
America
you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock
you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will
disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is
fair, this book will infuriate you.
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